Three Cups Of Tea Quotes:

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

topic: Country, Football, Thinking, Cups Of Tea, Three Cups Of Tea

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Beach, Ocean, Inspiration, Drops In The Ocean, Volunteerism

Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.

- Greg Mortenson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Home, Fighting, Infant Mortality, Three Cups Of Tea

If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.

- Greg Mortenson

topic: Girl, Fighting, Hygiene, Infant Mortality, Three Cups Of Tea

It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially for girls. More than 145 million of the world's children are deprived of education due to poverty, exploitation, slavery, gender discrimination, religious extremism, and corrupt governments. May Three Cups of Tea be a catalyst to bring the gift of literacy to each of those children who deserves a chance to go to school.

- Greg Mortenson

topic: Girl, Religious, Children, Education For All, Corrupt Government

If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs.

- Greg Mortenson

topic: Children, Military, War, Three Cups Of Tea

In times of war, you often hear leaders—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—saying, ‘God is on our side.’ But that isn’t true. In war, God is on the side of refugees, widows, and orphans.

- Greg Mortenson

source: "Three Cups of Tea". Book by Greg Mortenson, books.google.ru. 2006.

topic: Christian, War, Widows And Orphans, Three Cups Of Tea

The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili.

- Greg Mortenson

topic: Hymns, Singing, Tunes, Three Cups Of Tea

He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled on a photograph of his wife with his dying hand goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

- Flann O'Brien

source: "Myles before Myles: a selection of the earlier writings of Brian O'Nolan".

topic: Goodbye, Suicidal, Home, Three Cups Of Tea

In "Three Cups of Tea" I was fairly critical of the military. And I mentioned that they're laptop warriors and there's no boots on the ground. But I can say now that they've gone through a tremendous learning curve.

- Greg Mortenson

source: "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

topic: Military, Warrior, Curves, Learning Curve, Three Cups Of Tea