Quotes About America Melting Pot

#1. Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

Molly Ivins

#3. I think Kwame will be an asset to the Lakers.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#4. One of the things I most admire about America is they have created a genuine melting pot society, a country of opportunity; you can be of any religion, colour, ethnicity, persuasion and make it to the top of your chosen field. And that's something I admire about America and hope they continue with.

David Cameron

#5. Today you win, and tomorrow I'll steal your trophy.

Jarod Kintz

#6. In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.

Eliot Spitzer

#7. I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.

Bob Ney

#8. 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

#9. America is a melting pot, the people at the bottom get burned while all the scum floats to the top.

Charlie King

#10. America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

Israel Zangwill

#11. The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.

Joshua Foer

#12. Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

Gautama Buddha

#13. I think that we, as human beings, always need to conquer our fears and reach beyond our grasp and I think it's very important that we don't become complacent or stagnant.

Jonathan Nolan

#14. America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

Barbara Mikulski

#15. In adapting to life in the melting pot of America, I discovered that the same soft power of science has a huge influence in building bridges between cultures and religions - and has the potential to do so with the Muslim world.

Ahmed Zewail

#16. On the outside, America looks like this great melting pot, but on the inside, there's this segregation in American cinema. Why does a Latino film have to be for Latinos? Why is a black film just for black people? Why?

Gurinder Chadha

#17. America is a melting pot for all different groups of people, historically. And it's rare that the story of all of these people will be told in the history books. So I always felt I had to find out my history for myself and research my roots.

Nas

#18. I hate the word 'demigod'. I prefer 'being born with a target on my back. - Blitzen

Rick Riordan

#19. Everyone should be proud of who they are and where they come from because America is a big melting pot of diverse ethnicities. It's great to be part of this wonderful country.

Rima Fakih

#20. - So, what do you do?
- Nothing.
- What kind of nothing?
- The nothing kind of nothing.

Hallgrimur Helgason

#21. It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#22. America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.

Wyclef Jean

#23. A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

Lois Wyse

#24. But, frankly, to try to create some sort of a religious standard in terms of who can come to America, we're a melting pot. And as long as people have positive and good intent, they ought to be able to come.

John Kasich

#25. America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

Tiger Woods

#26. Responsive design is not a flawed methodology; it is only when it is misused and treated as an add-on instead of an overarching philosophy

Tom Barker

#27. If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.

Thomas Merton

#28. If America is a melting pot, then to me India is a thali
a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes different, and does not necessarily mix with the next but they belong together on the same plate, and they complement each other in making the meal a satisfying repast.

Shashi Tharoor

#29. America is no longer the melting pot it used to be. It has now become a tossed salad of foreigners that arrive to our shores wanting to keep their culture and forcing our acceptance.

Jay Severin

#30. I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

Philip Glass

#31. America, it has been observed, is not really a melting pot. It is actually a huge potluck dinner, in which platters of roasted chicken beckon beside casseroles of pasta, mounds of tortillas, stew pots of gumbo, and skillets filled with pilafs of every imaginable color.

Andrea Chesman

#32. If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.

Lou Holtz

#33. America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

Eric Ripert

#34. I didn't respond to that. I'm not scared of heights. I'm just scared of falling from heights.

John Zakour