Slums Quotes

106 quotes by 94 authors

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
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to… — George Orwell
God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected… — Unknown Author
I've been known to slum it and shop in the gag-him-and-bag-him aisles, believe it or not. — Tammara Webber
This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold. — Aberjhani
Try not to live in a linguistic slum. — Susan Sontag
The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes… — Ezra Taft Benson
Five days in Nairobi slums changes you. — Jacqueline Novogratz
Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the same difficulties, but… — Jaime Lerner
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier. — Michael Caine
In Rio, 1.4 million of the 6.3 million people live in favelas, or slums. They are all over the city, but favelas are not always… — Eduardo Paes
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
My grandfather was Scottish, born in the slums of Glasgow. — Trinny Woodall
There are a number of parallels between the slums of Brazil and those found in my hometown, Karachi. The dichotomy that exists in Brazil is… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life. — Vikas Swarup
Across the globe, one billion people live in slums: that is, one in seven human being — Unknown Author
As I search for my slice of that piece of mindd=== know folks that kill just to watch them die==soul of a jurassic lion down… — Dru Stone
No one lives in the slums because they want to. It's like this train. It can only go where the tracks take it. — Unknown Author
It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage… — Otto Schily
A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways and… — Charles Abrams

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