Shanty Town Quotes & Sayings

And yet, death was still there, everywhere. We had adopted her. She lived in us and we in her. She'd emerge from our red eyes and our clenched fists for brief sallies. She'd walk in white robes on the ruins of our shanty town and return to curl up inside us. We were the house she rested in and we'd find peace leaning on her. — Mahi Binebine

You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town. — O. Henry

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes. — John Irving

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment. — Mahatma Gandhi

What excites me? I think it's moving and uplifting my audience. Having them get it and go with it. That excites me. — Tyler Perry

A great deal of energy is lost in the study by people who interact with non-physical beings. They get into your mind and your body by approaching you in the dream plane, promising you powers, playing on your desires. They sap your life force. — Frederick Lenz

No son of mine is going to be a goddamn liberal, Kennedy interjected. Now, now Joe, Luce answered, of course he's got to run as a liberal. A Democrat has to run left of center to get the vote in the big northern cities, so don't hold it against him if he's left of center, because we won't. We know his problems and what he has to do. So we won't fight him there. But on foreign affairs, Luce continued, if he shows any sign of weakness toward the anti-Communist cause - or, as Luce decided to put it more positively - if he shows any weakness in defending the cause of the free world, we'll turn on him. There's no chance of that, Joe Kennedy had guaranteed; no son of mine is going to be soft on Communism. — David Halberstam

What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you. — Oprah Winfrey

Maybe that's what your machine calls infection - all the new information in my blood. Chatter. Tastes of other individuals. Peers. Superiors. Subordinates. — Greg Bear

The country music stations plays soft but there's nothing, really nothing to turn off. — Bob Dylan

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself. — Bill Toomey

Press on! Don't let yourselves be robbed of hope. Understood? — Pope Francis

As Osborne famously declared, "Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous." Jobs found that approach to be morally appalling, and he spent days making fun of Osborne. "This guy just doesn't get it," Jobs repeatedly railed as he wandered the Apple corridors. "He's not making art, he's making shit. — Walter Isaacson

It's strange watching him leave. Like watching my shadow depart and realizing its destiny may be separate from mine. — Pierce Brown

I don't buy anything which is Islamization of knowledge. I don't understand what it means in fact. — Tariq Ramadan

It had acquired a name, Spatters, that reflected the desultory randomness of its outlines: the whole stinking shanty-town seemed to have dribbled like shit from the sky. — China Mieville

There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down. — Roald Dahl