#jungle

I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#america #chicago #commissioned #i #immigrant

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#attention #children #had #jungle #living

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong. ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#be strong #better #does #example #for example

I don't like concrete jungles. ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

#i #jungles #like

Where everything is words, you'd think I'd have some mastery and know my way around, but all this churning hatred, each man a verbal firing squad, immeasurable suspicions, a flood of mocking, angry talk, all of life a vicious debate, conversations in which there is nothing that cannot be said...no, I'd be better off in the jungle, I thought, where a roar's a roar and no one is hard put to miss its meaning. ↗

— Philip Roth

#jungle #mastery #suspicions #words #life

the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be... ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#song-lyrics #song-lyrics

The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#contemporary #i #i think #jungle #lipstick

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world. ↗

— Bette Davis

#believe #bit #cannot #child #enter

I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible. ↗

— Adam Garcia

#areas #being #contrast #country #developed

I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl. ↗

— Pam Grier

#i #jungle #little #little girl #thought