The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard, Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards! — Ghostface Killah Copy Share Image
I've been known to slum it and shop in the gag-him-and-bag-him aisles, believe it or not. — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
Across the globe, one billion people live in slums: that is, one in seven human being — F Copy Share Image
A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums — Tim Yeo Copy Share Image
You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was… — Della Reese Copy Share Image
I'm from the slums, and the sticks, turned crumbs, into bricks. Got a bum, full of knicks, gun full of hollow tips. — Yung Joc Copy Share Image
What I really took in in India was that people - even in the slums - were happy with what they'd got.… — Guy Martin Copy Share Image
A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
It is our dream that by the time we celebrate the 75th year of independent India, all the slums are replaced by… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think… — Oscar Hammerstein II Copy Share Image
Detroit right now is virtually abandoned at its core to the degree that a lot of what had been slums thirty years… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
This book is the best treatment of the best American Marxist philosopher-and the best philosopher to emerge from American slums. Young Sidney… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird… — Frank N. Ikard Copy Share Image
The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the… — Eric Sevareid 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
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Ranger picked up and there was a moment of silence as if he was sensing me at the other end, taking my… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
“He never even felt how countless petty circumstances were fusing together to create an imperceptible but powerful stream that would carry him… — Ivo Andrić Copy Share Image
“Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting against individual blacks, and acts by the… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again. — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it… — James Howard Kunstler 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
And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image