James Norwood Pratt famous quotes

Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.
-- James Norwood Pratt

#Tea #Quiet #Thirst

America's new tea lovers are the people who have forced the tea trade to wake up. Elsewhere, tea has meant a certain way, a certain tradition, for centuries, but this is America! The American tea lover is heir to all the world's tea drinking traditions, from Japanese tea ceremonies to Russian samovars to English scones in the afternoon. India chai, China green, you name it and we can claim it and make it ours. And that's just what we are doing. In this respect, ours is the most innovative and exciting tea scene anywhere.
-- James Norwood Pratt

#Drinking #Names #America

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.
-- James Norwood Pratt

#Spiritual #Tea #Clarity

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.
-- James Norwood Pratt

#Luxury #Substance #Consciousness

Tea is quiet and it takes a quiet palate to appreciate something that calls so little attention to itself.
-- James Norwood Pratt

#Appreciate #Tea #Attention

Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow.
-- James Norwood Pratt

#Heart #Tea #Drink

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectfully preparing tea and partaking of it mindfully create heart-to-heart conviviality, a way to go beyond this world and enter a realm apart. No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering agent more benign.
-- James Norwood Pratt

#Spiritual #Heart #Luxury

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.

I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.