#melting

Hidden Highlands was maybe a little richer but not that different from many of the other small, wealthy and scared enclaves nestled in the hills and valleys around Los Angeles. Walls and gates, guardhouses and private security forces were the secret ingredients of the so-called melting pot of southern California. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#los-angeles #melting-pots #society #southern-california #wealth

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

— Tiger Woods

#choices #cultures #melting #melting pot #pot

I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans. ↗

— Bob Greene

#cultures #food #great #i #i love

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

— Eric Holder

#been #continue #cowards #essentially #ethnic

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#become #beliefs #different #different beliefs #different people

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. ↗

— George Catlin

#away #boundless #civilization #contemplated #forests

Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#bad #because #been #cycle #falling

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

— John Lindsay

#charcoal #city #dish #grill #melting

Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#amazing #been #business #career #careers

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. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#against #flux #freezes #giving #halts