Tea Quotes - Page 28

• Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

  D.T. Suzuki

  Space, Swallowing, Lips

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• That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.

  Miranda July

  Drinking, Problem, Contests

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!

  Emilie Autumn

  Blood, Leeches, Would Be

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• It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

  Neil Gaiman

  Motivational, Appreciation, Kindness

  FaceBook post by Neil Gaiman from Apr 14, 2010

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• Well, that’s just a little hard, since I can’t even talk her into sparing your life, huh? You haven’t exactly endeared yourself to her. (Kat) Oh, excuse my utter lack of manners there. Should we call Mommy dearest and invite her over for tea? I promise to be on my best manners when I choke the life out of her. (Sin)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Promise, Littles, Sin

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.94, St. Martin's Press

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• No. He’s the personification of human fear. (Leta) Oh, goody. Just what I wanted to add to my dream. Should we invite him over for tea? (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Add, Should

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• Animals shouldn't eat gumdrops! They shouldn't drink tea or chocolate milk, either.

  Michael Buckley

  Animal, Chocolate, Milk

  Michael Buckley (2011). “The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War”, p.14, Abrams

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• So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Two, World, Pennies

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.91

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• Madame Lefoux accepted a cup of tea and sat on another little settee, next to the relocated calico cat. The cat clearly believed Madame Lefoux was there to provide chin scratches. Madame Lefoux provided.

  Gail Carriger

  Cat, Scratches, Littles

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• I just love family meetings. Very cozy, with the Christmas garlands round the fireplace and a nice pot of tea and a detective from Scotland Yard ready to arrest you.

  Rick Riordan

  Nice, Family Love, Scotland

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

  Margaret Atwood

  Two, Missing, Gone

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “Cat's Eye”, p.350, Hachette UK

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• Hey, thanks for stopping by," Howard said. "I'd offer you some tea and cookies, but all we have is boiled mole and artichokes. Plus, we kind of have a dead girl in the living room.

  Michael Grant

  Girl, Rooms, Moles

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• Do you have any coffee? (Talon) Ew! No, that stuff will kill you. I have herbal teas, though. (Sunshine) Herbal teas? That’s mulch, not a beverage. (Talon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Coffee, Sunshine, Stuff

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• She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.

  Colum McCann

  Pain, Forever, Cups

  "Zoli". Book by Colum McCann, 2007.

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• We tried so hard. We were always trying to help each other. But not because we were helpless. He needed to get things for me, just as I needed to get things for him. It gave us purpose. Sometimes I would ask him for something that I did not even want, just to let him get it for me. We spent our days trying to help each other help each other. I would get his slippers. He would make my tea. I would turn up the heat so he could turn up the air conditioner so I could turn up the heat.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Air, Always Trying, Purpose

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• The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

  William Faulkner

  Sunset, Dies

  William Faulkner (1994). “Novels 1942-1954”

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• Sister Mary chose that moment to come in with the tea. Satanist or not, she'd also found a plate and arranged some iced biscuits on it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Biscuits, Moments, Found

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted resident colonialist, sipping tea with his delicate lady in the non-white colonies being systematically robbed of every valuable resource. Britain's superfluous royalty and nobility now exist by charging tourists to inspect the once baronial castles, and by selling memoirs, perfumes, autographs, titles, and even themselves.

  Malcolm X

  White, America, Forever

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.292, Ballantine Books

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• You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sleep, Katniss, Bakers

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.271, Scholastic Inc.

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• Love isn't a burst o' trumpets and a flock o' doves descendin' out o' the heavens to roost on yer heads. Tis sharin' a cup o' tea by the hearth on a cold winter's night. 'Tis the look in yer husband's eyes when ye lay yer first child in his arms. Tis the ache in yer heart when ye watch the light in his eyes dim fer the last time, and know a part o' ye has gone out o' this world with him.

  Teresa Medeiros

  Children, Husband, Heart

  Teresa Medeiros (2011). “Charming the Prince”, p.311, Bantam

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• It’s the way he had a cup of tea waiting for me when I woke up. It’s the way he turned on his laptop especially for me to look up all my Internet horoscopes and helped me choose the best one. He knows all the crappy, embarrassing bits about me that I normally try to hide from any man for as long as possible… and he loves me anyway.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Men, Long, Waiting

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• Why is she convinced Ambrose is out to get her" Leif asked "Ambrose?" Yelena raised a slender eyebrow. She carried a tray of tea and fruit. "You're on a first name basis with the Commander now?" "I usually call him Amby, but not in mixed company.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Eyebrows, Names, Fruit

  Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Storm Glass”, p.326, MIRA

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• She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

  Thomas Hardy

  Family, Mother, Party

  Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë (2016). “Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre”, p.1025, Open Road Media

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• I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady." Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.

  Scott Westerfeld

  School, Rewards, Conviction

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Touching Darkness: Number 2 in series”, p.95, Hachette UK

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• On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong! And the Monkeys all say Boo! Theres a Nang Nong Ning Where the trees go Ping! And the tea pots Jibber Jabber Joo On the Nong Ning Nang All the Mice go Clang! And you just cant catch em when they do! So its Ning Nang Nong! Cows go Bong! Nong Nang Ning! Trees go Ping! Nong Ning Nang! The mice go Clang! What a noisy place to belong,Is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!

  Spike Milligan

  Tree, Ems, Monkeys

  Spike Milligan, “On The Ning Nang Nong”

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