America Quote by Carl N Degler

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different…

— Anonymous

“America, it has been observed, is not really a melting pot. It is actually a huge potluck dinner, in which platters of roasted chicken…

— Andrea Chesman

“America’s not really a melting pot. It’s more like one of those divided metal plates with separate sections for starch, meat, and veggies.”

— Nicola Yoon

We no longer want to be a melting pot, because we don't understand what is already melted.

— Wynton Marsalis

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

— Pearl S. Buck

The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.

— Erin McKean

I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

— Jesse Jackson

“We have a bubbling successful melting pot in this country so long as the ingredients are essentially European.”

— Jared Taylor

Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.

— Jane Hirshfield

I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.

— William H. Macy

The item I prize in the kitchen is the mixing bowl, which can represent the start of something beautiful.

— Jay Blades

“Prideep pointed to the flames of paraffin lamps as they came alive in the distance and cackled in awe at the experience. (…) I…

— Tahir Shah