A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there. — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Hate builds up from the childhood when your world was a slum, but you haven't got the right to blow it to… — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
“Like most people in the slum, and in the world, for that matter, he believed his own dreams properly aligned to his… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Owning a hundred slum properties wasn’t a crime, although living in one was, almost. Being” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It's in the misery of some unnamed slum that the next killer virus will emerge.” — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Besides being a slum kid with no great education in anything except how to fight and stay alive and steal, I also… — Jake LaMotta Copy Share Image
“The slum, with its dirt and its queer lives, was first an object-lesson in poverty, and then the background of my own… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We are seeing a changed Mumbai, but having showcased Dharavi in 'Slum Dog Millionaire' brought shame and disgrace to our city. Whenever… — Rohit Shetty Copy Share Image
I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long… — Hal Higdon Copy Share Image
One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in… — Katherine Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
“every time I entered the slum I felt the urge to let go and surrender to a simpler, poorer life, that was… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
One chronicler writes of an area of India during the end of the 20th century: Almost no-one in this slum was poor… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“In Oakland, he saw two slum children sword fighting on a slag heap. In Palo Alto, a puffy fop in bursting jodhpurs… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line. Our first school was… — Shukla Bose Copy Share Image
“These people were building homes for the rich, but they lived in tents covered with blue tarpaulin sheets, and partitioned into lanes… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“When I first came here it was a pure country. There was music and dancing and magic every day in the streets.… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity. — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
The yutes dem blood a run dung deh inna the slum. Dem mek a bag a promise and naw fullfill none. — Mavado Copy Share Image
Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I'm the murderer and the victim the licence with the gun. I'm a sad and bruised old lady in an ally in… — Ub40 Copy Share Image
I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
