Shanty Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The battle for the gospel in the opening years of the twenty-first century is being fought not primarily in the lecture rooms of North American seminaries but in the shanty towns, urban slums and villages of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Brian Stanley

#3. An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply
low rental.

Jane Addams

#4. Not much was said of Gaberone except its riches and its danger. The prisons were said to be in-escapable, the shanty towns cheap, the police didn't bother the illegal immigrants unless they were caught committing crimes. A dangerous paradise.

Thabo Katlholo

#5. The shanty soon ended, but Ryber kept pounding the drum and hollered, "'The Maidens North of Lovats!'" - which Merik knew was her favorite song, since she was a maiden from north of Lovats.

Susan Dennard

#6. 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

#7. As a reminder to himself and anyone who visited his office in the shanty, Burnham posted a sign over his desk bearing a single word: RUSH.

Erik Larson

#8. I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris.

Brian McDermott

#9. I was very dawn to people I loved, to my family, to my father, to my sister, to my brothers.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Teach one girl how to code, she'll teach four. The replication effect is so powerful.

Reshma Saujani

#11. Come all you thoughtless young men,
a warning take by me
And never leave your happy homes
to sail the raging sea.

Patrick O'Brian

#12. Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Seamus Heaney

#13. I fondle the last two charms: a letter C- oh yes, I was his first girlfriend to use his first name. I smile at the thought. And finally, there's a key.
"To my heart and soul," he whispers.

E.L. James

#14. Don't play coy.
You know what I mean. I get ready to say something
to you and you just kiss me! Like you're trying to
make me forget what I was about to say to you! -Avery Callimer

Nikki Lynn Barrett

#15. This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?

Ann Reed

#16. If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking.

Martin Bashir