Assimilate Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Assimilate Quotes from famous persons: Kimberly Guilfoyle, Pedro Reyes, Shahid Khan, Ernest Istook, Don Ameche. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Assimilate Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

When my mom, Mercedes, and her younger sister, Juanita, first came from Puerto Rico, they were the youngest in the family. They had to jump into a new community and really learn English, assimilate, and adapt – and I saw that. I grew up in that community.

Kimberly Guilfoyle

If people can keep track of all the celebrity gossip, there’s no reason we can’t also assimilate the key concepts of economic philosophy.

Pedro Reyes

I had to overcome a lot of barriers. Until 1947, it was illegal for people from the subcontinent to migrate to the U.S. The subcontinentals were the last ethnic minority to gain citizenship. You assimilate. My name was too hard. They said, ‘Shad is what we are calling you.’ You go with the flow.

Shahid Khan

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

I’ve deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won‘t be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.

Don Ameche

I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you’re desperate to fit in, to assimilate in some way, and everything about me stood out.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

When I was at school, you had to choose; there was a lot of pressure to assimilate. You were an Aussie, or you were one of ‘the wogs’ – which was everybody else. But I didn’t want to be in either group, so I felt like an odd one out.

Jonathan LaPaglia

America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.

Nancy Pearcey

First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, ‘It must be a good thing to fight for.’

Edmund White

Being a musician, especially at the major label where you work for so long, it becomes a cycle. Write a record, make a record, tour. It’s just this cycle, and I don’t think there’s any life built into it with time to assimilate what’s going on in front of you and what’s going on in your head.

Art Alexakis

Once the notion of time travel starts to come naturally to the human mind, it is supremely easy to assimilate it into our mode of thinking.

Maria Konnikova

I also think we need to maintain distinctions – the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

John Polkinghorne

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If you’re already somebody who‘s feeling different, you’ll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

Uzo Aduba

I was so beat down as a young person – being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I could never, ever pull off being butch.

Billy Porter

As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?

Pat Buchanan

Especially for young POC, when we enter majority-white spaces, we feel the need to assimilate, to blend in, to prove ourselves. I don’t think we discuss it enough.

Angie Thomas

We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment.

Rudolf Steiner

Our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our community. It is not to assimilate and please any other people and authority.

Linda Sarsour

I feel like humor and tragedy are all on the same coin, and it’s all a part of the same process as humans as we assimilate reality.

Weyes Blood

Everyone learns how to assimilate through watching television. Everyone thinks America is going to be like Hollywood, and when they get here they keep watching TV to find out how to be.

Alexandra C. Pelosi

When my older and younger brother came to live in this country, they were attacked on numerous occasions and had to defend themselves. This was a country where it was hard to assimilate, it was difficult because a lot of people didn’t want you here.

Lenny Henry

I think any city that does the Olympics takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate all sorts of folks.

Laurence Fishburne

Growing up, my parents were very much about the Egyptian culture. They never really wanted to assimilate in American culture.

Sam Esmail

I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.

Tony Dungy

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

Madeleine Albright

No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.

Daryl Gates

We can’t really digest food unless there’s hunger. So we can’t really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

Radhanath Swami

I believe that when the going gets tough, you should just hit pause. Assimilate what is happening for 10 minutes. Your thoughts will be much clearer.

Shreya Ghoshal

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

Aubrey Plaza

My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was ‘Caroselli’ and it was changed in the mid ’50s. I think they wanted to assimilate, which was pretty common, although I love the name ‘Caroselli.’

Steve Carell

When you’re a child, you’re able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you’re around. I wasn’t conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.

Vincent D’Onofrio

Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it’s not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.

Richard Holbrooke

No matter what nationalities became a part of our country in the future, they would have to assimilate into the Han nationality. The nationalism our party supports is a positive nationalism. Do not forget that.

Sun Yat-sen

All Americans knew was ‘The Joy Luck Club‘ and children of dry cleaners trying to assimilate. The Asia that I was seeing was a world of people who are incredibly sophisticated, and I wanted to represent that side.

Kevin Kwan

I don’t like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

Pia Zadora

When I was 22 I didn’t know how to manage my career or assimilate success.

Jose Jose

Pop culture says that if a black girl is to be taken seriously, she has to assimilate and be as white as possible, to the point of bleaching her hair blonde.

Sir Mix-a-Lot

Certain stories, like my mom leaving when I was 15-years-old to go back to China because she didn’t quite assimilate like we did, that was a moment that was very sad in my life.

Jimmy O. Yang

I’m saying we’ve got big problems in our cities. It’s not very smart to make the problem bigger by letting in millions more immigrants from rural Muslim cultures that don’t assimilate.

Pim Fortuyn

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