Annawadi Quotes

#1. Still, from what he had observed in Annawadi, the fact that a boy knew about the gods didn't mean the gods would look after the boy.

Anonymous

#2. Everyone is Annawadi talks like this- oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, "What a navigator I am!" And then the wind blows you east. -ABDUL'S FATHER, KARAM HUSAIN

Katherine Boo

#3. Besides, this was the gentle-going hour in which he hated Annawadi least. The pale sun lent the sewage lake a sparkling silver cast, and the parrots nesting at the far side of the lake could still be heard over the jets.

Katherine Boo

#4. The forces of justice had finally come to Annawadi. That the beneficiaries were horses was a source of bemusement to Sunil and the road boys.

Katherine Boo

#5. It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents and catastrophes they dodged. A decent life was the train that hadn't hit you, the slumlord you hadn't offended, the malaria you hadn't caught.

Katherine Boo

#6. To be poor in Annawadi, or in any Mumbai slum, was to be guilty of one thing or another.

Katherine Boo

#7. One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste the way their parents are. They know their parents have these old views.

Katherine Boo

#8. I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Calvin Trillin

#9. Just go to a bar, watch football - that's fun to me because I've not gotten to see anything because I've been travelling so much. Playing some shuffleboard and some pool and darts. I like kind of dive-y bars.

Miles Teller

#10. I wake to sunshine flashing on puddled water, to dirty clumps of hail melting in the shadowed lees of boulders, to rock wrens singing like it's the best day of their lives.

Rae Carson

#11. Take Risks in Your Life If u Win, U Can Lead! If u Lose, U Can Guide!

Swami Vivekananda

#12. Autopilot is great, and removal of thought is one of the highest ideals of training. But removal of thought in the moment must be preceded by purposeful thought beforehand.

Chris Matakas

#13. We may forget the pain, but the memories are always painted in our heart.

John

#14. A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.

Martin Luther

#15. You used to get it in your fishnets
Now you only get it in your nightdress
Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness ...
... Remeber when the boys were all electric?

Arctic Monkeys

#16. I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

Keren Ann

#17. Apollo 17 would be the sixth and final flight to the Moon. In total, the American space program had taken the work of two and a half million people and had cost nearly $25 billion.

Lily Koppel

#18. While you are playing Cinderella with your life, they will keep toying with your life.

Sunday Adelaja

#19. People do not mind people who try things and fail. If you're a good entrepreneur, you're not going to succeed in every single thing you try. You've got to try to succeed at more things than fail.

Richard Branson

#20. Affluence, unboundedness, and abundance are our natural states. We need only to restore the memory of what we already know.

Deepak Chopra

#21. She took the pills from him, placed them in her mouth and drank the entire bottle of water. Water: it has no taste, no smell, no color, and yet it is the most important thing in the world. Just like her at that moment.

Paulo Coelho