Quotes & Sayings About America Being A Melting Pot

I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times. — Stephen Mangan

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go. — Sophia Amoruso

A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties. — Evgeny Morozov

Culture was actually humanity's attempt to extend the womb. — Christopher Henry Dawson

She understood at least as well as I did what corruption and pitiless cruelty might be hidden behind the masks that some people wore. - Addison Goodheart pg 93 — Dean Koontz

You're my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful. — Maggie Stiefvater

She could end up as just another girl in a forbidden room, a sleeping beauty who would never wake.

He didn't want that for her. And she didn't want that either. It was the wrong kind of forever. A soulless, frozen love. — Sarah Cross

The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager. — Mattie Stepanek

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state. — Martin McGuinness

Communication between people of different nationalities enriches human society and makes it more colourful.. Imagine our Russian intellectuals, the kind, merry, perceptive old women in our villages, our elderly workers, our young lads, our little girls being free to enter the melting pot of ordinary human intercourse with the people of North and South America, of China, France, India, Britain and the Congo. What a rich variety of customs, fashion, cuisine and labour would then be revealed! what a wonderful human community would then come into being, emerging out of so many peculiarities of national characters and ways of life. And the beggarliness, blindness and inhumanity of narrow nationalism and hostility between states would be clearly demonstrated. — Vasily Grossman

I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you love her, then love the woman you see, not the woman you suppose, presume, assume, and surmise that she might have been. — Ilya Atani

It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision. — William Pollard

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward. — New International Version