Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of… — Melinda Gates 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
I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother… — Bono Copy Share Image
The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe were all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
I had a void, God. Filled with whores & with blunts. I ain't have choice God I was born in the slums — Vinnie Paz Copy Share Image
Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The end result of positively reinforcing bad behavior is that you get more of it. The culmination of a failure to punish… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives… — Anna Sewell 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
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time. — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
I have committed myself to joy. I have come to realize that those who make space for joy, those who prefer nothing… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is… — John Grierson 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