#slum

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#buddies #children #friends #get #having

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#become #doctor #far #form #free

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice. ↗

— Ichiro Suzuki

#ask #i #myself #slump

...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum... ↗

— John Geddes

#eulogy #maudlin #muse #slum #streets

...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul destroying. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#public-school #slums #home

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. ↗

— John Grierson

#cruelty #doorstep #drama #earth #ends

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. ↗

— Walter Scott

#each #fair #light #pleasing #slumbers

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking. ↗

— Gene Mauch

#beginning #choking #end #funny #got

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from. ↗

— Floyd Patterson

#closer #fight #fighter #future #his

The slum is the measure of civilization. ↗

— Jacob Riis

#measure #slum