(15 quotes found)
“If a ragnarök would burn all the slums and gas-works, and shabby garages, and long arc-lit suburbs, it could for me burn all the works of art — and I'd go back to trees..”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“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 Jr.
“Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium”
Cyril Connolly
“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 gas stations.”
Charles Abrams
“Fear drags me into the slums of the emotions. But when I move into love, the penthouse of emotions, I choose a completely different neighborhood. The valley below transforms into a spectacular, unobstructed view reminding me of how far I have come.”
Colleen Laukka
“We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.”
Day One
“That's why it's always gonna be a slum. Paterson is the bastard child of New Jersey.”
Corey Rouse
“It looks like a real slum. Who would want to live there? Who would want to live in that neighborhood?”
Kim Schmitt
“It's the city's new rolling slum. Well, it's not exactly new. It's just bigger.”
Rick Reynolds
“A swear-word in a rustic slum / A simple swear-word is to some, / To Masefield something more.”
Max Beerbohm
