Melting Quotes

Melting Quote of the day

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.

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 the pot or he got melted down.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

The morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness.

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

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.

It must descend, as the dew, upon the tender herb, or like melting flakes of snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Devils used to be God's angels that fell from the top. There is no diversity cos we're burnin in the melting pot.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

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.

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 or he didn't get melted down.

[A]s previous studies have concluded, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are probably thickening rather than melting.

When she kissed me, I had the feeling my brain was melting right through my body.

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there.

Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.

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

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards

The United Nations is an organizational body where people, through their Governments, come together; and it can be the only place where there can be a melting pot.

Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.

Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there? The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?

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

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.

Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other.

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists

before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

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 and vanishing.

Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.

Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns.

Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.

Streams of melting snow.

Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.

Melting icebergs aren't beheading Christians in the Middle East.

The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.