Quotes About Tradition

High tea is fun. It's elegant and social and a great way not to have to devote yourself to a big meal but still have a drink and a relaxed time.

I used to have an aunty who read tea leaves. She was incredibly accurate.

My grandmother was this amazing woman in the Dominican Republic who used to read tea leaves and palms. She would cure people in her neighborhood by going into her garden, plucking a couple of leaves, and brewing teas.

I was mixing iced tea and lemonade in my kitchen since as long as I can remember. It wasn't until some time in the early 1960s that it became associated with me publicly.

A good cup of Earl Grey tea - you can't beat it.

You don't put milk in chamomile tea - that's disgusting behavior! That's not right.

I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.

I'm a southern boy raised in Gainesville, Georgia, so it's natural for me to want fast food and sweet tea, but those are the things I've had to cut back on.

As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.

In a shooting day in the U.K., every few hours, everyone takes a bit of a tea break - not coffee, but a tea break. They bring out these little finger sandwiches with the crust cut off. Everyone sits around for a few minutes, with their pinkies in the air, drinking. It's so cultured.

I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.

If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea.

Tea is a huge part of my life.

Tea makes everything better.

The old men running the industry just have not got a clue. They've got to come to terms with the fact that Britain is no longer a totally white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks and drink tea. The national dish is no longer fish and chips; it's curry.

I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.

You'd be surprised how much easier it is to conduct business over tea than over lunch or dinner in a bustling restaurant.

Mam was always saying we had a simple diet: tea and bread, bread and tea, a liquid and a solid, a balanced diet - what more do you need? Nobody got fat.

China's a big tea culture.

I am not religious, but I still feel there is a sacredness about Mothering Sunday, even when I'm just enjoying a lie-in and a cup of tea from my boys.

Food is the best way to teach history and geography and most everything else.