Slum Quotes

55 quotes by 51 authors

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job,… — Whitney M. Young
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what… — Hal Higdon
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American… — Frank N. Ikard
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent… — Eric Sevareid
I wanted to clear up the slum of legsâ€¦ I wanted to make the chair all one thing again. — Eero Saarinen
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know… — Douglas Adams
If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all. — Spiro T. Agnew
A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and… — Edward Abbey
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex… — C.S. Lewis
I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've… — Spiro T. Agnew
A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So… — Peter L. Berger
Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships… — L. Ron Hubbard
I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area… — T.E. Lawrence
The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, (while) the internet is like a crime-ridden slum, — Phil Zimmermann
Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job.… — Whitney M. Young
Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came… — Floyd Patterson
I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation… — James Howard Kunstler
Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will… — Bunker Roy

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