Melting Quotes

244 quotes by 228 authors

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. — Jimmy Carter
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
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
I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted. — Jesse Jackson
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
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
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
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs. — Larry Wall
Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures. — Bob Cousy
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
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
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
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
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
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
...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
The ice caps are melting, which we see over and over again. Yeah, they're melting on Mars, too! — Dana Rohrabacher
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
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
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

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