Quotes About Squatter

Shame is life-dominating and stubborn. Once entrenched in your heart and mind, it is a squatter that refuses to leave.

And now a few words about the excrement shaft; it was basically a six-story indoor outhouse, with a hole in each floor. A squatter. So you had to look up, and if you saw someone's ass above you… well, too much information. More importantly, the shit shaft could be a means of escape. Always look for an escape.

In 1790, "squatter" appeared in a Pennsylvania newspaper, but written as "squatlers," describing men who inhabited the western borderlands of that state, along the Susquehanna River. They were men who "sit down on river bottoms," pretend to have titles, and chase off anyone who dares to usurp their claims.5

As late as 1842, "squatter" was still considered a "term, denoting infamy of life or station," of a lesser rank than the class-neutral "settler.