Last Updated on September 6, 2024
Sometimes, a cup of coffee is all you need to start your day off right. Whether it’s to prepare yourself for the challenges ahead, to take a break from work, or just to relax by the window with a good book at the ready, coffee can make everything feel just right.
Coffee can be either a shot of energy or a warm hug depending on the situation, which is why so many people love it. It’s a drink that’s easy to enjoy and can lift your spirits up with every cup. The sheer variety of coffee brews, blends, and flavors also guarantees that there’s a cup for every kind of person.
The taste of coffee can range from a dark, bitter yet rich and aromatic flavor to a light, mellow taste with a creamy tone. It can be enjoyed warm or iced and it pairs well with pretty much everything.
The History of American Coffee Culture
Coffee is more of a social phenomenon nowadays, especially in the United States.
There are coffee shops around every corner, instant coffee is present in pretty much every workplace, and many people simply can’t operate without a cup of coffee in the morning. Big coffee brands like Starbucks helped foster this coffee culture by providing even more ways to enjoy the drink.
Coffee is a drink that’s loved by several Americans, but did you know that it started as an act of rebellion?
Back when the US was still a British colony, tea was the usual drink that people enjoyed. However, as tensions grew and the American Revolution started to ramp up, coffee became the drink of choice.
The shift in preference began in 1773 during the Boston Tea Party, where angry colonists dumped large shipments of tea into the Boston Harbor in protest of the unreasonably high taxes imposed by British royalty.
Since that incident, coffee became “the patriot’s drink” as drinking tea was looked down upon by the revolutionaries. Even key historical figures like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were advocates of coffee.
Coffee has since become a staple drink in American culture. Everyone from the frontiersmen of the West to the soldiers of World War II had their regular cups-of-joe in the morning, and that culture persisted until this very day.
Benefits of Drinking Coffee
Despite what many people think, coffee is actually a very healthy drink. It has plenty of antioxidants that can protect your body from harmful free radicals and helps keep you in good shape thanks to its many essential nutrients.
A cup of coffee is also good for your mental health. Past studies suggest that drinking coffee can reduce the risk of diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and depression on top of keeping you safe from physical ailments like liver cirrhosis and diabetes.
If that’s not enough, studies show that coffee is great for boosting morale in the office. It encourages interactions between employees while also increasing their overall productivity at work. If you ever needed a reason to drink more coffee at work, then this is it.
Here’s a compendium of quotes from some of the world’s most popular coffee lovers to celebrate a good cup of coffee however you like it:
Quotes for Coffee Lovers
- “Life is like coffee, the darker it gets, the more it energizes.” – Ankita Singhal
- “Either way, he figured a cup of coffee would hit the spot. For what is more versatile? As at home in tin as it is in Limoges, coffee can energize the industrious at dawn, calm the reflective at noon, or raise the spirits of the beleaguered in the middle of the night.” – Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
- “Want to hear a really dark joke? Decaf.” – Unknown
- “Coffee! Because anger management is too expensive.” – Unknown
- “I need COFFEE to help me change the things I can…and WINE to help me accept the things I can’t!” – Tanya Masse
- “The Lord must have created coffee to reward humans for those bad times they sometimes have on Earth. Having charged your heart and brain with a cup of coffee, you’re ready to face the challenges of life. A good cup of coffee makes life seem better.” – Sahara Sanders, Indigo Diaries
- “Mrs. Windemere always had a cup of hot coffee waiting for me. Black, which, she said, was the only way to drink it if you wanted to be awake to serve the god of Creativity” – Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now
- “You’d have coffee on a drip if you could, wouldn’t you?” – Kristina Adams, What Happens in New York
- “The love for coffee is stronger than any fears of man.” – Mladen ?or?evi?
- “One must savor the coffee, to actually have it.” – Mohith Agadi
- “Coffee and flying are two pleasures that combine magnificently.” – A.J. Sky, Starstorm
- “Do you know what the Turkish say about coffee? It should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.” – Holly Black, Black Heart
- “COFFEE! Because this body is NOT going to wake itself up!” – Comic Strip Mama
- “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” – T.S.Eliot
- “Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.” – Earl Wilson
- “It’s amazing how the world begins to change through the eyes of a cup of coffee.” – Donna A. Favors
- “Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.” – Justina Chen
- “What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee.” – Anthony Trollope
- “Coffee is a language in itself.” – Jackie Chan
- “Coffee – it’s the lifeblood that fuels the dreams of champions!” – Mike Ditka
- “I don’t know how people live without coffee, I really don’t.” – Martha Quinn
- “Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven.” – Jesse Lane Adams
- “I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.” – Flash Rosenberg
- “I would rather suffer from coffee than be senseless.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
- “I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.” – Howard Schultz
- “The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- “Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.” – Stephanie Piro
- “To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.” – Hugh Jackman
- “What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.” – Henry Rollins
- “Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised.” – Star Trek: Voyager
- “Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis – a good hot cup of coffee.” – Alexander King
- “The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.” – Sir James Mackintosh
- “If it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever.” – David Letterman
- “Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- “When I think of coffee, I think of fresh mornings, companionship, a book while it rains outside, a conversation with a best friend, comfortable silence shared with someone special and warm hugs. Coffee teaches us life lessons, like the importance of taking one sip at a time and pausing every now and then to reflect on life.” – Mitali Meelan, Coffee and Ordinary Life
- “I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.” – Ronald Regan
- “If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.” – Alfred Renyi
- “He was my cream, and I was his coffee – And when you poured us together, it was something.” – Josephine Baker
- “Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.” – Terry Pratchett, Thud!
- “Humanity runs on coffee.” – Unknown
- “I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ’Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.’” – Jim Carrey
- “A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table – There’s nothing wrong with them, but it’s hard to stop thinking about it.” – Garrison Keillor
- “Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.” – Edward Abbey
- “Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.” – Dave Barry
- “Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.” – Anne Spencer
- “Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?” – Jean Kerr
- “Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It’s a hell of a mix. If you’re ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think.” – Kevin Garnett
- “A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee – a lot more.” – Jayne Mansfield
- “Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic’s best friend!” – Gerard Way
- “I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.” – Eddie Izzard
- “I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.” – Burt Lancaster
- “Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “When I wake up in the morning, I just can’t get started until I’ve had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I’ve tried other enemas.” – Emo Phillips
- “No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for “Before Coffee.” – Cherise Sinclair, Master of the Mountain
- “Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what’s unsustainable in their communities. That’s the future.” – Ian Somerhalder
- “I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.” – Steven Wright
- “It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.” – Jonathan Swift
- “I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.” – Howard Schultz
- “Coffee is the common man’s gold, and like gold, it brings to every person the feeling of luxury and nobility.” – Sheik-Abd-al-Kadir
- “Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death and sweet as love.” – Turkish Proverb
- “But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all. New York has great water for coffee.” – David Lynch
- “I judge a restaurant by the bread and the coffee.” – Burt Lancaster
- “Coffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Without my morning coffee, I’m just like a dried-up piece of goat.” – J.S. Bach
- “Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.” – Stephanie Piro
- “It’s amazing how the world begins to change through the eyes of a cup of coffee.” – Donna A. Favors
- “I’ll quit coffee. It won’t be easy drinking my Bailey’s straight, but I’ll get used to it. It’ll still be the best part of waking up.” – Megan Mullally
- “It’s strange how drinking 8 cups of water seems impossible but 8 cups of coffee go down like a chubby kid on a see-saw.” – Unknown
- “Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.” – Earl Wilson
- “Procaffeinating: The tendency to not start anything until you’ve had a cup of coffee.” – Unknown
- “I like my coffee like I like myself: strong, sweet, and too hot for you.” – Jac Vanek
- “Why, yes, I could start my day without coffee. But I like being able to remember things like how to say words and put on pants.” – Nanea Hoffman
- “Coffee; because hating your job should be done with enthusiasm.” – Unknown
- “I eat salad every day. Bean salad…Coffee bean salad…Coffee. I drink coffee every day.” – Unknown
- “I don’t need an inspirational quote, what I need is a freaking cup of coffee.” – Unknown
- “A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don’t later fray.” – Marcia Carrington
- “There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women…” – Orson Welles
- “That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t worry – poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow.” – Anne Sexton
- “The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.” – Haruki Murakami
