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Quotes About Cups

But now the mystic night has passed; the cock has crowed, the goat's abroad. Black things of night, the bat, the bug, have flown away; the flowers have opened their cups to catch the sun.
~ John Crowley
The FDA just ordered them off the market. The glaze is supposed to be poison—provided you drink at least forty cups of tea out of one of them every day of your life for twenty years.
~ Frederik Pohl
House rule number nine. No roach shall drink or eat out of the good cups in the kitchen. The plastic cups are in the pantry.
~ La Tisha Honor, Teen Roach
As looking down from great heights brings the urge to fall and end the terror of falling, so his very watching put pressure on them to make a slip as they dried and stacked the plates and cups.
~ John McGahern
The cracked white cups took pink lights as the sun, already descending, slanted across the cherry; the tree filled the air with its heavy scentlessness.
~ elisabeth Bowen
I'd be happy if I was part of a Liverpool side that kept winning titles, cups, and made history.
~ Roberto Firmino
I think 90 per cent of players are still pursuing dreams of league titles and cups, but there is also a huge percentage of very good players who are strictly money motivated.
~ Jermaine Jenas
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men:But, at our parting, we will be, as whenWe innocently met.
~ Ben Jonson
I love... Eskimo Joe's. I have tons of Eskimo Joe's clothes and cups in my house, 'cause I love Eskimo Joe's.
~ Brooke Elliott
There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified and will flow together.
~ Rumi
Hot tea, he said, holding the cups. It's just wrong.
~ Maureen Johnson
Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, They shorten tedious nights.
~ Thomas Campion
But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.
~ Jose Mourinho
Winning domestic tournaments like leagues, cups, and super cups adds to your standing in your country, but once you take a step forward in Europe and lift that European Cup, I think that prestige extends to the global stage.
~ Iker Casillas
This is what Sweden is - quiet people leaning over the newspapers and coffee cups, each one with his own thoughts and destiny.
~ Henning Mankell
including four mice posed with tiny china cups, seated around a miniature table. A Mad Hatter's grotesque tea party.
~ Tess Gerritsen
We had six horses, and I would compete. Jumping. Cabinets full of cups. I always won.
~ Louise Wilson
Speaking of bones recalls an ugly custom of theirs, now obsolete—that of making fish-hooks and gimlets out of those of their enemies. This beats the Scandinavians turning people's skulls into cups and saucers. But
~ Herman Melville
There's no reason why we can't win trophies at Stoke, we'll try and win some cups and do as well as we can, but I obviously have ambitions.
~ Jack Butland
To a peaceful August in Pompeii, then, saaid Flavia's father, and raised his cup in a toast. Pompeii, they all echoed, and raised their wine cups.
~ Caroline Lawrence
Because I am southern, I love serving mint juleps in silver cups with a sprig of mint as guests enter.
~ Tinsley Mortimer
Poison is drunk in golden cups
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The worst coffee I had ever tasted, but it was hot. I drank three cups and sat there an hour, until I was completely dry.
~ Charles Bukowski
One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse.
~ George R.R. Martin