the scum QUOTES

1 " Don’t be timid. You’re a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present. And begin with the scum in your area, put their backs to the wall. "

― Elena Ferrante , Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels #3)

2 " When he admires the man he calls his father: a man slightly above the scum of the earth—what does that speak about he who admires him? "

3 " You saw where I come from. No matter what I do or how I act, I'll always be the scum of the earth. I am who I am, and there's nothing you or anybody else can do to change that. "

― Collette West , Inside Game (New York Kings, #4)

4 " The Jews are the scum of the earth, but they are also great masters in lying. "

― Arthur Schopenhauer

5 " It was a delicious meal -- skim milk, wheat middlings, leftover pancakes, half a doughnut, the rind of a summer squash, two pieces of stale toast, a third of a gingersnap, a fish tail, one orange peel, several noodles from a noodle soup, the scum off a cup of cocoa, an ancient jelly roll, a strip of paper from the lining of the garbage pail, and a spoonful of raspberry jello. "

― E.B. White

6 " Money is a good weapon against the scum and is of no consequence to the noble mind. - On Money. "

― , To Life from the Shadows

7 " I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman. "