Pot Quotes - Page 25

• Of course I'm a black writer... I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call "literature" is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.

  Toni Morrison

  Latin, Writing, Black

  Newsweek Interview, March 30, 1981.

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• Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

  A. C. Benson

  Jam, Sticks, Stores

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• My theory is because I'm Asian and white I sort of look like the future. I'm the melting pot.

  Moon Bloodgood

  White, Asian, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds.

  Carol Alt

  Mom, Dog, Vegetables

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of the spirit with the mundane tasks of her Carmelite convent: the washing of pots, the sweeping of floors, the folding of laundry. At some point of grace, the mundane became for her a sort of prayer, a way she could experience her ever-present connection to the divine pattern which is the source of life. She began then to see the face of God in the folded sheets.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Christian, Prayer, Grace

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• I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue.

  Elton John

  Alcohol, Drug, Glue

  Song: The Bitch Is Back Elton John Bernie Taupin

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• I got a generation brainwashed to pop pills and smoke pot til they brains rot.

  Eminem

  Alcohol, Drug, Brain

  Song: I'm Shady

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• Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Well, roll my breakfast cause I'm a hungry man.

  Big Joe Turner

  Men, Kitchen, Breakfast

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• There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the war to defeat Bush, well, noted. If they truly believe that the United States is in the same group as the Nazis, the Soviets and Pol Pot, then they've shown they have no perspective, no judgment, no sense of nuance, shall we say. And the idea that such comparisons might be picked up in the Middle East and broadcast with glee is irrelevant; they're parochial to a fault, and care little for anything beyond their reputation and power in Washington.

  James Lileks

  War, Believe, Ideas

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Minorities, Melting, Cases

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• Your pot belly, I'd give that a 10 for size.

  Bobby Bare

  Friendship, Giving, Size

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

  Barbara Mikulski

  America, Melting, Cauldrons

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• [T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on your front porch. Creating your name helps to build a sense of place within your neighborhood as well as pride in your accomplishments. By naming your farm you give it a life of its own. Be creative and come up with a name that inspires and makes people smile, like my friend Laura's "Wish We Had Acres," the Fairy Tale inspired "Jack's Bean Stalk" or my "Urban Farm.

  Greg Peterson

  Pride, Names, Creating

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• I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have such great cooks in the family that I would rather manage the other affairs and leave the kitchen to those who know it best.

  Kajol

  Kitchen, Affair, Not Interested

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• Every potter praises his own pot.

  Henry George Bohn

  Potters, Praise

  Henry George Bohn (1867). “A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs: Comprising French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish, with English Translations and a General Index”, p.443, London : Bell & Daldy York street covent garden

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• The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  World, Jeering, Judgment

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• He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Water, Doe, Fountain

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). “Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)”, p.32, Univ of California Press

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• Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good.

  George Herbert

  Wisdom, Treasure, Speak

  'The Church Porch' (1633) st. 72

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• I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.

  Henry IV of France

  Food, Sunday, Want

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15, 1922.

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• I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.

  Alice Childress

  Anger, Mad, Water

  Alice Childress (2012). “Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life”, p.44, Beacon Press

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• And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Rose, Bud, Fit

  Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.762, Wordsworth Editions

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• We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables — the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers — to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.

  Jane Elliott

  Country, Vegetables, Differences

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• Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

  Lionel Richie

  Country, Growing Up, Grandmother

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage - including unfair damage - from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.

  Greta Van Susteren

  War, Hands, Afar

  "Candidate Fundraising: Is This All Messed Up, or Am I Wrong?" by Greta Van Susteren, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.

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• People say pot-smokers are lazy. I disagree; I'm a multitasking pot-smoker: just the other day I was walking down the street, I was putting eyedrops in my eyes, I was talking on my cell phone, and I was getting hit by a car.

  Doug Benson

  Eye, Phones, Cells

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