Assimiliation Quotes & Sayings

I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform. — Swami Vivekananda

Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity. — Voltaire

Don't want to spend my afternoon picking you off the pavement. — Benedict Jacka

Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer. — Bill Hybels

Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America. — Maxine Hong Kingston

I privately say to you, old friend ... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))). — J.D. Salinger

But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance. — Zadie Smith