Kathleen Lonsdale Quotes & Sayings

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 subordinated to a larger ideology or social amalgam which is "America." This concept obviously did not work, because paradoxically America encourages a politics of contestation. — Edward Said

I have learned the beauty of childhood, now. Every trivial thing holds great significance. You are sensitive and vulnerable to everything around you; you notice the changing leaves and all the colors in the rainbow. Every conversation leaves a brilliant imprint on your mind. — Kanza Javed

Family! So sorry, forgive me. I thought I'd met all the mispocheh! — Nicole Krauss

What ever you do, try to do it perfectly because the world is watching you; every step and every move you make. It's ready to crush you down or to build you up. That's the world for you. — Euginia Herlihy

Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly be the aim of our legislatures, general and particular. — Thomas Jefferson

She walks in beauty. — Ron Rash

He had complete mastery of her, a mastery she welcomed as the tiny tremors low in her belly started, signaling her impending climax. — Danielle Monsch

I have remained resentful to this day
When any but myself presumed to say
That there was anything I couldn't be. — Robert Frost