“In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.”
Source: The Kite Runner
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“A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.”
Nancy Reagan (1921–2016) actress and first lady of the United States
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
From the fifth book, "The Book of the Exhibitionist"
The Pillow Book
“Justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
A phrase used in many notable speeches by King, which is actually a quotation of Amos 5:24 in the Bible.
Misattributed
Variant: Justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Source: Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
TV Interview for Yorkshire Television Woman to Woman (2 October 1985) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105830 <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
As quoted and paraphrased in "The Scoreboard" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bkEqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=000EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4731,2918286 by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (Friday, June 10, 1955), p. 30 <br class="br">Baseball-related, <big><big>1950s</big></big>, <big>1955</big> <br class="br">Context: "I no play so gut yet," the Puerto Rican star tried to explain yesterday. "Me like hot weather, veree hot. I no run fast cold weather. No get warm in cold. No get warm, no play gut. You see." Clemente likes Forbes Field and Connie Mack Stadium the best of all the parks he's played in but has a strong dislike for Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds because of the crazy bounces the balls take as they ricochet off the walls.
Babur (1483–1530) 1st Mughal Emperor
quoted from Lal, K. S. (1999). Theory and practice of Muslim state in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 4
“Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Another quote often attributed to her without an original source in her writings, as in The Wit and Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt (1996), p. 199. But once again archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above.
A very similar remark was attributed to Nancy Reagan, in The Observer (29 March 1981): "A woman is like a teabag — only in hot water do you realize how strong she is."
Variants:
A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
A woman is like a tea bag; you can't tell how strong she is and how much to trust her until you put her in hot water.
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“A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”
Nancy Pelosi (1940) American politician, first female Speaker of the House of Representatives, born 1940
Interview with ABC News, as quoted by Hilary Clinton.
2000s