Melting Quotes

That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break. But you would have to be an idiot to believe that. The Constitution is not a living organism; it is a legal document. It says something and doesn't say other things.

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.

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

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

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

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.

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had butchered five hundred of your own men out of arrogant carelessness, we'd be melting the bronze already.

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

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

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.

People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.

What we need to do is stop global warming; that's the only way to stop your peanut butter cups from melting... And if that doesn't do the trick, then put them in the fridge... Or better yet, eat them.

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.

And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.

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.

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

Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.

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

Streams of melting snow.

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

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

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.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

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

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.

I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

The ice caps are melting, which we see over and over again. Yeah, they're melting on Mars, too!

My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.

Being a melting pot is what I think is great about being American, and also that we get to do something that other people don't get to do, we get to be a hyphenate. That's a good thing.

And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

Just by looking at nature, I feel as if I'm being swallowed up into it, and in that moment I get the sensation that my body's now a speck, a speck from long before I was born, a speck that is melting into nature herself.

Disasters around the world are twice as big as they ever were, and ice is melting where it's not supposed to melt, and everything's changing - the world is changing - and it's all because of global warming, I think.

The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.

Whatever enjoyment I might have had at the time would disappear overnight like snow melting on a warm roof.

Eyes like streams of melting snow,” she said, and it was all I could do not to roll my melting snow eyes.

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

Genres aren't that relevant. Nearly every form of music is a melting pot of things of things.

I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.

I find it strange that there isn't more of a melting pot of language within the pop charts. I feel it becomes really two dimensional when everything's in English.

I just had a thought that perhaps religion is so vibrant here is because of the melting pot aspect to our society. WE have so many cultures here in the US and they all bring something new to their religious experiences.

Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its glow.

All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.

Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.

The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it.