#mel

To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#american citizen #any #assimilate #become #cherished

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#children #how #i #light #nature

I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#bar #cigar #cool #danny #friend

One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#cricket #dad #day #drove #especially

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured. ↗

— Rick James

#funk #i #lyrically #make #melodic

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#friendship #like #pearl #poetry #precious

Under the bridge, traffic above us and coats around us, hearts thudding with the steady perfection of this moment, I thought of every word I had never before dared to think about him. Future. Hope. And love, as the rain slowed to a misty trickle through the long and beautiful night. ↗

— Holly Cupala

#love #rain #beauty

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

#emotional #head #melody #rhythm #state

I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing. ↗

— Jewel

#coming #diego #hear #homeless #i

We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America. ↗

— Jewel

#end #homelessness #must #together #work