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

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

The slums of paradise are better than the mansions of Earth. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

I had a void, God. Filled with whores & with blunts. I ain't have choice God I was born in the slums — Vinnie Paz

We can't have it so there are skyscrapers side by side with slums. — Li Keqiang

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

The Queen of Terrasen was in a fighting pit in the slums of Rifthold. — Sarah J. Maas

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. — Mother Teresa

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.' — Mother Teresa

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

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

The slums of one nation are the suburbs of another. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

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

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

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. — Larry Norman

Across the globe, one billion people live in slums: that is, one in seven human beings. — Paul Mason

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

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

Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions. — Richard Paul Evans

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. — Graham Greene

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

Only education can empty the workhouses and prisons, the slums and rookeries. — Jennifer Donnelly

He ended the world because it was not to his liking and here I am challenging the same monster for a fifteen-year-old rat from the slums — Quil Carter

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. — Kenneth Clark

The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, 'Miracle in Milan.' It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration. — Beeban Kidron

She did not mind this new background; she was indifferent to the slums as she had been indifferent to the drawing rooms. — Ayn Rand

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

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums. — Imelda Marcos

Hell is also the memory of starving children in the slums of Armaghast and the smile of politicians sending boys off to die in colonial wars. — Dan Simmons

My grandfather was Scottish, born in the slums of Glasgow. — Trinny Woodall

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. — Della Reese

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

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

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