Slums Quotes

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When you come up in the slums, having nothin make you humble

The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the factories and slums, on the farms and in the mines, then my world changes.

Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution.

The slum is the measure of civilization.

The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.'

Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions.

Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

It is our dream that by the time we celebrate the 75th year of independent India, all the slums are replaced by cemented houses.

There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.

She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

From Sunbelt to Rustbelt, North to South, East to West, once-thriving cities have become little more than drug-infested slums.

I've been called to the slums of the streets and the ditches of the world.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.

Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.

I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad in the evening sun. It is intensely sad.

Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to clearing up the slums.

Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.

London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.

The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated into the vertical slums of the late 20th century.

I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

Try not to live in a linguistic slum.

It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums

Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

I looked at the people, then, and I saw how busy they were - how much industry and energy described their lives.