Pot Quotations

I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.

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

To all my soap fans out there, my horror fanatics, comedy lovers, I will tell you this: 'Death Valley' is an action-packed drama, comedic, horror TV series that has a non-stop adventure in each episode. It's like a huge pot of Texas gumbo. If you like all four of those genres, then you'll love this show.

Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans.

I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.

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

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

Iranian parents can't stop their children. They're just wild - they want to party, they want their rights, they want to paint, they want to dance. No one can stop these new generations coming. That's why Iran has to open up: it's like a pot full of hot water, vapour and steam.

There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all attractive concepts, especially to an introvert. In fact, the introverts were probably the first to feel crowded in England and to daydream about all the space they would find in the New World. Peace! Quiet!

America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination.

Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item.

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

New Orleans has a unique history as a great melting pot of all kinds of cultures, and that manifests itself now through the food, the music, and the kinds of people who live there.

Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up.

In terms of pots and pans, I just use the basics - Im not a snob like that.

I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long.

I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there something in the traditional sense? I believe that this stuff came from somewhere other than people's imaginations.

I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up at 6, pack lunches, hustle the kids off to school, then brew a pot of coffee and head downstairs to the dungeon, as I call it: my cobwebby office in the basement.

When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.

Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

Thus have you the way of making Conserves, the way of keeping of them is in Earthen pots.

I'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.

It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.

I spent my childhood clad in 1970s hand-me-downs, primarily from male cousins, which mainly consisted of a selection of beige, brown and orange dungarees. That, combined with a perfectly round pudding-bowl haircut, made me look, on a good day, like a cross between Ann Widdecombe, one of the Flower Pot Men, and a monk.

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

The funny thing about children is that, whichever room we're in, that's where they'll be. If I'm in the bath, they'll want to be in there too, playing with the toothbrush pot or brushing my hair.

Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak's rule, become a place of intolerance and distrust of the other.

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.

'Calcutta is a pot of honey' means that in the first half of the nineteenth century, before the society became truly Victorian in feeling and tone, Bengal was a place to make money. The governor-generals returned to England rich men. It was a bountiful, lush, prosperous, easy place to make a fortune - in coal, in jute, and particularly cloth.

There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs.

My Italian granny and my mother made great spaghetti, but it wasn't a kind of southern Italian, Godfather-esque kind of thing - it was a wonderful, big mixing pot of all kinds of people - when you came home from school and your mum wasn't in, there were lots of people you could go to.

A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.

I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot onstage. On the other side of the pot was a little girl who had dark hair, and she and I were representing the Italians. And I thought: Is that what an Italian looked like?

I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

I make a big pot of pasta with vegetables, and I stretch it out for the week.

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.

I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.

I like to personalise my dressing room, have a cover for the bed and, if it is a long run, a few cushions and a teapot - a little pot for one.

I don't smoke pot. I never liked it.

Everything I do now is about growing the pot to have more to give away,

In my home I tend to eat a very simple version of what we cook at the restaurant, which is vegetable-oriented, with a little bit of fish and very little meat. For instance, a dish in my home could be steamed spinach with spruce, where I take a spruce branch and put it in the pot and that infuses into the spinach.

Basically, I start my morning off with a Bustelo coffee made in a mocha pot - the Bialetti. I warm some milk on the side, on my stove, and I add one teaspoon or half a teaspoon of real sugar. I have two of these every morning. Even when I was pregnant.

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.

When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.

I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.

Americans don't have deep gastronomic roots. They wanted to get away from the cultures of Europe or wherever they came from. We stirred up that melting pot pretty quickly.

In adapting to life in the melting pot of America, I discovered that the same soft power of science has a huge influence in building bridges between cultures and religions - and has the potential to do so with the Muslim world.

Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!

As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.

Pot lucks are fun, especially when you encourage your guests to bring dishes that represent their families or cultures.

Pot barley takes longer to cook than pearl, but an overnight soak in water will speed things along. It's a robust grain that, if overcooked, won't collapse but will become more tender.

Pol Pot killed one point seven million Cambodians, died under house arrest, well done there. Stalin killed many millions, died in his bed, aged seventy-two, well done indeed. And the reason we let them get away with it is they killed their own people. And we're sort of fine with that. Hitler killed people next door. Oh, stupid man. After a couple of years we won't stand for that, will we?

One of the most disappointing things about the case is that union members had their hopes raised for no good reason. They were given the false impression that William Hill had behaved inappropriately and that there was a pot of money to compensate them,

Nobody in this league is going to tell you that they don't want to start. I've bought into it, hoping there's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. But do I feel I could be starting on this team? Hell, yeah.

When I come to Chicago, I gorge myself. I get off the plane and start with Gene and Jude's for two hot dogs with everything, swing by The Fudge Pot for a taffy apple and a turtle, chocolate clusters at Sarah's Pastries and Candies and steak at Smith and Wollensky. I find time for Gino's pizza within the next 12 hours.

Like a cornered animal, which turns instinctively to confront pursuing predators, Pol Pot viewed policy in terms of a fight to the death. The alternative was to be devoured.

Of course, Pol Pot in Cambodia, Rwanda -- things on a much larger scale than this. But this is pretty bad.

One or two intermediaries approached us and suggested they could influence the votes. We turned them down. We certainly didn't set out to influence people other than give them a pot of Cape gooseberry jam.

Pot is a vehicle for the show. It's so in the zeitgeist. It's talked about in the news, in the courts. It's a morally ambiguous narcotic (and) the universal rebellion drug.

Now the melting pot was full of lumps again.

Now that's a case of the pot calling the kettle metal.

I did smoke pot a few times but nothing else. I would never inject. I'm too fond of the drink. I can go two weeks or more without it, but then I'm quite enthusiastic to get back to the taste again.

If we had a pot of money, what we'd want to do would be to deed restrict them, then discount them like 10 percent. That would cover why you're doing a deed restriction.

I grew up about 30 minutes north of Boston in a town that was a virtual melting pot - I was exposed to all different backgrounds, cultures, and religions, fueling my personal interests in global issues.

Most people use a deeper pot that matches the exterior of their home. Size depends on what they want to put in it.

May you have all the happiness and luck that life can hold— And at the end of all your rainbows may you find a pot of gold.

On an international tour that usually means American music ? folk music, jazz music, traditional music ? from the people that melted into our communal pot here in the Fox Valley.

Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them

Your pot laws are great! But your gun laws are even better!

Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot.

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.

I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him. But China could.

If a pot is cooking, the frienship will stay warm

From the time they were small, our children learned to pot plants, make cuttings and pull weeds, ... We have worked very, very hard for a long time. And that's what this ranch is all about.

I had just turned on the coffee pot and I heard the roar coming. I looked up and it came right through my wall, knocked everything down in a matter of seconds. I let out one yelp. By the time I did that, I was ankle deep in water.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot

What do you get when you put two brothers and sisters in a band? A big fat melting pot of talent.

Whatever inspires us, we throw it into the pot and make our own flavor.

There is a great difference between surrender and capture, ... Surrender means we have to give Pol Pot safe conduct. We have to capture him alive.

Just recently up in Utah, some guy got 55 years for selling an ounce of pot to an undercover agent.

My mother couldn't take having three boys. She was extremely jumpy, to say the least. Any noise startled her. The sound of a pot dropping on the ground could make her hit the ceiling.

London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.

I respect the passion of the individuals that have been writing these letters. But some of them are filled with misinformation and have taken pot shots at President Rao, when he's been the one saying, 'Find a way to keep the museum open.' The campaign made absolutely no difference in this decision.

State is kind of like a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. You don't really look at it until you get there because we have to win four games.

Particularly in these high school-set movies, there's something about being in high school that's like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion and joy and heartbreak that you feel so intensely. Because you don't have any awareness yet, you don't realize that it's a finite time and feeling.

Part of my plan included giving up red meat, which I did without a fight. I really haven't missed it. Except for one thing -- pot roast.

People love the soup kitchen because it brings everyone out to share a meal and good conversation while donating to a worthy cause. And of course, as the soup pot is emptied, the donation pot grows.

I see many parents who still view this as a rite of passage, like they know their kid is going to experiment with pot just like they'll experiment with cigarettes. I'm telling you, it's absolutely not OK to think like that anymore. I'm pretty sure most of these parents would be shocked if they sampled some of the pot that's out there right now.

It is better to return a borrowed pot with a little something you last cooked in it

I think that to see Pol Pot facing a trial does not please Hun Sen very much.

I was thinking about going home. I thought Stuart would pot that black all day long. Missing it was a godsend for me and I made the most of it.

It is all still in the melting pot and we haven't given up hope of overtaking Morley.

It costs me $200 more, and there's already $600 in the pot, and I have two loose-aggressive players in the pot with Q-8 of diamonds, which is the kind of hand that if you hit it, you hit it big or you can get away from it.

I was not a big drug person. I couldn't smoke pot because it made me so paranoid that I couldn't tell if I had to pee or I was really cold, so I just didn't enjoy it.

We have the most complex society to ever exist in human history. We are the true melting pot of America.

The only road I've ever known has been full of turns with pot holes like chasms.

We'll make a pot of soup for us, but if it's cold outside and they are here, we'll offer it.

The artists were referring to their own traditions, but because of the melting pot of the group they moved beyond that as well.