Melting Quotes
244 quotes by 228 authors
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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
— Jimmy Carter
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Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that…
— Barbara Jordan
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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
— Jesse Jackson
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Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the pot…
— Thurgood Marshall
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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be…
— Edward Said
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The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into…
— Thurgood Marshall
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
— Larry Wall
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Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
— Bob Cousy
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Sometimes he will sit on the carpet in front of you, looking at you with eyes so melting, so caressing and so human, that they…
— Theophile Gautier
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For a Christian to defy adversities is to "despise" chastisement. Instead of hardening himself to endure stoically, there should be a melting of the heart.
— Arthur W. Pink
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We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting…
— Jules Renard
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Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,/ The bee's collected treasure sweet,/ Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet/ The still small voice of gratitude.
— Thomas Gray
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Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti…
— Mia Kirshner
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I'm always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have to deal with each other.…
— Jenji Kohan
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...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica, and other glaciers? Was it…
— Kevin E. Trenberth
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The ice caps are melting, which we see over and over again. Yeah, they're melting on Mars, too!
— Dana Rohrabacher
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I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade. If you don't understand what the cause is, it's virtually impossible to come up with…
— Joe Biden
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The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global temperatures, but also…
— Al Gore
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Disasters around the world are twice as big as they ever were, and ice is melting where it's not supposed to melt, and everything's changing…
— Jerry Weintraub
Who Wrote These Melting Quotes
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