Cultural Mosaic Quotes

When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America.

I appreciate America as being the most artistic nation because of its diversity.

My country is nothing if not diverse.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.

Cities are a melting pot for different ideas, and diversity brings a high-energy rhythm that I don't think we'd know was gone until it was too late.

Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind... That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.

To me, America is a symbol of all different views, different types of people coming together.

I don't consider Mumbai-Delhi as India. The grass-rooted diversity of U.P.-Bihar is the real India.

As one of the largest states in the country, Florida's vibrant diversity is a key part of our nation's story.

There's just really interesting facets of culture just swirling in Morocco. They all have slightly different colours, so it's just an inspiring place to be.

New York is this cacophony - a collection of radical differences, an agreement of non sequiturs. The diversity and intensity are startling.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

There's no one New York. There's multiple New Yorks.

The greatness of Americans is that we are mosaic - we are diverse.

We are part of an inspiringly colorful mosaic of cultures and traditions. I will nurture this pluralism.

Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

Israel is a mishmash of other cultures. It's like New Orleans; it's a meltdown of other cultures.

No nation has a single history, no people a single song.

Racial lines, which once were bitterly real, now serve nothing more than marking out a living mosaic of human beings. And even here men of the same color are like the ivory keys of one instrument where each resembles all the rest, yet varies from them in pitch and quality of voice.

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

Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

I grew up in a very culturally diverse area of America and I am very proud to come from there.

There's a huge Indian population here in Toronto. Also, Calgary, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Edmonton - Canada really is a great multicultural country.