pot quotes

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

-Jimmy (James Earl) Carter
  Speech at Pittsburgh, 27 Oct.

Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.

-Elizabeth I
Of the Commission of Sales. Quoted in Francis Bacon Apophthegms New and Old (1625), no.54.

When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water†Begob, ma'am, says Mrs.Cahill, God send you don't make them in the one pot.

-James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
  Ulysses.

   We have to acknowledge that the thing we call 'literature' ismorepluralisticnow, just associetyoughtto be. The melting pot never worked.

-Toni Chloe Anthony ne  e Wofford Morrison
  In Newsweek, 30 Mar.

Why stir the wasps that rim Fame's luscious pot? Love costs us nothing, satire costs a lot!

- Edgell Rickword
  'The Contemporary Muse'.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming† God is making the American.

- Israel Zangwill
  The Melting Pot.