Best 71 quotes in «melting quotes» category

A rain like melting pillows… a rain so beautiful I could never have let go of if not certain that someday...it would find its way into my poem.

He hesitated. "Don't you see? You're like a favorite painting. A found masterpiece, I loved both for things remembered and those newly discovered.

Every moment age is creeping up stealthily, but life, life is melting down like a candle that is flickering around.

He was the second snowman to be melting away before her eyes, only this one was different. It was a paradox. The colder he became, the more he melted.

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

Who knows? Maybe I'll find myself a great girl. Someone like you.

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.

Beauty in a woman is a moving thing, Yet sometimes just the patient lack of it Will pierce the heart to deeper poignancies, And, melting, draw a note of tenderness That not the fairest woman could evoke!

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.

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

Harlem is really a melting pot for a lot of different people.

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.

Patience is to wait for the ice to melt instead of breaking it.

The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!

The return of the rain, beating out time on London's rooftops and pavements. Early morning Zombies sheltering beneath copies of the Standard whilst others ran screaming for cover in doorways because water from the heavens is holy and melts the undead.

What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

When iron and carbon come together, there emerges steel! To be something stronger and better, you must mostly unite with something else and melt in something else!

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.

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

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

before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow

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.

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.

Everyone should be proud of who they are and where they come from because America is a big melting pot of diverse ethnicities. It's great to be part of this wonderful country.

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

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

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.

Hollywood is a symbol of global movies, it's not just American movies. It's become a platform and a melting pot; it's for all the talents and capital from all over the globe.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there.

I am shocked, truly shocked. I was in Siberia a few weeks ago, and I am now just back in from the field in Alaska. The permafrost is melting fast all over the Arctic, lakes are forming everywhere and methane is bubbling up out of them.

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.

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 grab Sarah’s hand. “You are more than that. I need you here with me. You’re pretty much the only thing keeping me from completely melting down.” “I get it,” she says. “You’re going to save the freaking world and I’m going to help you. That whole saying about behind every great man there is a great woman? I can be that for you. I just want to be a great woman with excellent aim.

I love that New York City is a true melting pot.

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

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.

I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.

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

I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It’s basically a mini country unto itself.

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

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Letting the last breath come. Letting the last breath go. Dissolving, dissolving into vast space, the light body released from its heavier form. A sense of connectedness with all that is, all sense of separation dissolved in the vastness of being. Each breath melting into space as though it were the last.