Slum Quotes

55 Slum quotes by 49 unique authors

Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones… — Dev Patel
Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of… — Roger Rosenblatt
Hate builds up from the childhood when your world was a slum, but you haven't got the right to blow it to kingdom come. — Ray Davies
I have committed myself to joy. I have come to realize that those who make space for joy, those who prefer nothing to joy, those… — Richard Rohr
The slum is the measure of civilization. — Jacob August Riis
Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that… — Katherine Schwarzenegger
And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of… — Terry Pratchett
This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might… — Vladimir Nabokov
A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside. — Nicholson Baker
Ranger picked up and there was a moment of silence as if he was sensing me at the other end, taking my body temperature and… — Janet Evanovich
I've been known to slum it and shop in the gag-him-and-bag-him aisles, believe it or not. — Tammara Webber
Try not to live in a linguistic slum. — Susan Sontag
I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the… — Sugata Mitra
When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum… — David Suchet
I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood -… — Bonnie Bedelia
I grew up in a semi-slum area in Gavipuram, Guttahalli. — Shakuntala Devi
The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The… — Noam Chomsky
The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line. Our first school was on a rooftop… — Shukla Bose
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are… — Alan Brien
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make… — Frank McCourt
Well, this slum cost a lot of money. It should look better than an ordinary slum. [When told it was supposed to be a slum]. — Samuel Goldwyn
If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord… — C.S. Lewis
I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum you've seen them… — Spiro T. Agnew
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all. — Spiro T. Agnew

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