That day Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life. We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country of thirty-minute power lunches and two-minute football drills...Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects. He taught me that I had more to learn from the people I work with than I could ever hope to teach them. - Greg Mortenson Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life...We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country of thirty-minute power lunches and two-minute football drills. Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects. - Greg Mortenson

You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far. - Oscar Wilde Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. - Josh Billings Well, come back and have tea with us," saidMoon-Face. "Silky's got some Pop Biscuits -andI've made some Google Buns. I don't often makethem-and I tell you they're a treat! - Enid Blyton Are you in the habit of taking tea with anyone who approaches you in a foreign port?" He went on and snorted carelessly. "No wonder you were abducted so easily. - V S Carnes Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, an...

Oh come on Pam, they're funny. They're like humans but miniature...tea cup humans! - Charlaine Harris No tea cup is big enough nor book long enough for me to be satisfied. - C S Lewis Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river. - Steve Martin Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes 'Cuppa tea, cuppa tea... almost got shagged... cuppa tea'? - Joss Whedon

Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America. - Steve Aylett The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible. - Lafcadio Hearn writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. that thing you had to force yourself to do--the actual act of writing--turns out to be the best part. it's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. - Anne Lamott You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concent...

He dunked his tea bag and watched the results critically. I really must get a new supplier. This tea is pathetic. America just doesn't understand tea at all. - Rachel Caine I hope they're in town. I want to face them! Reign stood and brandished one of the two swords that she usually wore in sheaths crisscrossed on her back-in addition to the dagger sheath she customarily wore on her forearm. "I'll lunch on their balls!" That was Reign's new threat: to lunch on enemies' balls. "Reege, when you threaten males with that, I don't think it has the result you intend. They think less Lunchables , more tea bag . - Kresley Cole When are you gunna forget that? It was ages ago.' Only last year, actually. Reggie was convinced he had cancer because he had a black pot on his tongue - he switched to tea bags after the doctor told him it was a tea leaf. - Bill Condon People are like tea bags. You find out how strong they are when you put them in hot water...

... had to pee like a racehorse at an Iced Tea convention. - Stephen Colbert American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957. - Tom Holt I put a saddle on my salad, and I rode my horseradish to Rhode Island, where I was just in time to be late. I think I left my time zone change in my Arizona iced tea, so all I have to offer you to drink is water that's been redirected from the Colorado River through a series of pipes and political litigation. - Jarod Kintz My thermos does such a good job of keeping my tea hot that it feels like I'm drinking iced tea. - Jarod Kintz Jake's hair smelled like iced tea with honey in it, after all the ice has melted. - Kelly Link Watching Joel sip his iced tea and listen to stories of my childhood, the ones my mom told at all of the family gatherings, I felt my heart warm. He'd been there too. And as she...

Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes 'Cuppa tea, cuppa tea... almost got shagged... cuppa tea'? - Joss Whedon

A cup of tea would restore my normality. - Douglas Adams So he decided to stay out of it and instead turned back to Lady Bridgerton, who was, as it happened, the closest person to him, anyway. "And how are you this afternoon?" he asked. Lady Bridgerton gave him a very small smile as she handed him his cup of tea. "Smart man," she murmured. "It's self-preservation, really," he said noncommittally. "Don't say that. They wouldn't hurt you." "No, but I'm sure to be injured in the cross fire. - Julia Quinn Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea. Silence descends, one hears the wind outside, autumn leaves rustle and take flight, the cat sleeps in a warm pool of light. And, with each swallow, time is sublimed. - Muriel Barbery You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. - Lewis Carroll I put hibiscus flower ...

A cup of tea would restore my normality. - Douglas Adams Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea. Silence descends, one hears the wind outside, autumn leaves rustle and take flight, the cat sleeps in a warm pool of light. And, with each swallow, time is sublimed. - Muriel Barbery You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. - Lewis Carroll When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over. - Audrey Hepburn 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 Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more ...