Swirling Tea Quotes & Sayings

I think about the people I know with the absolutely largest hearts, people with a stunning capacity for endurance and grace and kindness against the most screaming terrors and pains. My Mom and Dad, for example, enduring the death of their first child at six months old, the boy the brother I never met, dying quietly in his stroller on the porch in the moment that my mother stepped back inside to get a pair of gloves because the crisp brilliant April wind was filled with a whistling cutting wind....

Fifty years later after five more children and two miscarriages she is standing in the kitchen with her usual eternal endless cup of tea and I ask her: How do you get over the death of your child?

And she says, in her blunt honest direct terse kind way,
You don't.
Her face harrowed like a hawk for a moment in the swirling steam of the tea.
p112-13 — Brian Doyle

Now, I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable. — Newt Gingrich

Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters. — Cressida Cowell

Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things. — Dogen

Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

The US goverment proudly boasted Zero Tolerance and implemented the scheme with zero intelligence — Morrissey

I could set from memory a replica of the perfect Still Life she laid out on the table each morning: the carefully folded Advertiser, the two canary yellow hemispheres of grapefruit in their bowls, separated by a more richly yellowed cube of butter; the sky blue milk-jug and matching sugar bowl filled to the brim with their differently textured whitenesses; the pot of tea snug in its knitted navy blue cosy, the steam that rose invisibly from its spout suddenly rendered visible, swirling, where it entered the slanting morning light. — Peter Goldsworthy

The command to the Twelve to go out and proclaim the Good News is also valid for all Christians, though in a different way ... . the Good News of the kingdom which is coming and which has begun is meant for all people of all times. Those who have received the Good News and who have been gathered by it into the community of salvation can and must communicate and spread it, — Pope Paul VI

Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God. — Antonio Porchia

America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world. — Bill Frist

It is not about knowing, but about living. — Victor Manuel Rivera

Tea, my tornado in a cup. Swirling and swirling around. Enter me; twist and turn me inside out. — Dharlene Marie Fahl

Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below? — David Kenyon Webster

It was soldier's went marching over the rocks,
and still they came in watery flocks,
because it was spring and the birds had to come,
No doubt that soldier's had to be marching,
and that the drums had to be rolling, rolling, rolling — Wallace Stevens

The Owl thinks slowly, but the Owl thinks long. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I can be such a people pleaser, and so worried about what people are thinking or feeling insecure. — Ari Graynor