Homeless Quotes - Page 10

• I knew I wanted to be an actor. I just kept saying, "Until somebody tells me to stop, until I have to go get a real job, and until I'm practically homeless, I'm not gonna get one."

  Joel McHale

  Jobs, Real, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into a men's shelter where they face enormous danger, or remaining street homeless and facing the violence, harassment, arrest, and exposure risks of that.

  Dean Spade

  Men, People, Risk

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Homeless people bear God's image too.

  Philip Yancey

  People, Bears, Homeless People

  Philip Yancey, Eugene H. Paterson (2001). “Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage”, p.82, Zondervan

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• I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets!

  Rawi Hage

  Doctors, Cadavers, Wonder

  Rawi Hage (2013). “Carnival: A Novel”, p.6, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Obviously, I'm not homeless. I'm not an old alcoholic. I'm not jumping trains. I just like to live in a certain way.

  Patti Smith

  Jumping, Way, Certain

  "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.

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• I've had my Charlie Sheen moments, it was usually just at the Mars Bar on the corner of First Avenue with me and a few homeless guys.

  Moby

  Guy, Bars, Mars

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• For my whole life I have dedicated myself to those who have been subjected to injustice. I've conducted investigations and written in newspapers about the homeless, the incarcerated, the sick excluded from care, about child labor, child exploitation, etc.

  Dacia Maraini

  Children, Sick, Care

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• The council in Blackpool have given the homeless bus passes, but how would they know where to get off?

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Given

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• I'll tell ya, my wife and I, we don't think alike. She donates money to the homeless, and I donate money to the topless!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas are being hollowed out. Just look at Times Square in New York. No more sex shops, no drugs, no homeless people. The area is clinically clean and incredibly dull.

  Rem Koolhaas

  New York, Sex, Squares

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• Homeless people's dogs are more knowledgeable than dogs in Beverly Hills. Why? Because they explore, they move forward, they go through the ups and downs in life. A dog in a wealthy environment, there is no downs except what he lives.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Moving, People

  Interview with David Morris, www.askmen.com. February 27, 2015.

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• Where do the homeless have 90 per cent of their accidents?

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Humor, Cents

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• When contemplating a shield that would protect America for incoming missiles, Democrats suddenly became hardheaded fiscal conservatives. For the first time in recorded history, liberals were concerned about the cost and usefulness of a government program. These people believe federally funded art therapy for the homeless will pay for itself. That you can take to the bank. But a shield to repel incoming nuclear missiles from American soil they said, was too expensive and wouldn't work.

  Ann Coulter

  Art, Believe, America

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• Not all Americans are living the American dream by a long shot. Many can't even imagine it. There are impoverished Americans, the poor and the homeless, the hungry and the hopeless, many unable to read and write. There are Americans gone astray, the kids dragged down by drugs, the shattered families, the teenage mothers struggling to cope. Then there are Americans uneasy, troubled and bewildered by the dizzying pace of change.

  George H. W. Bush

  Dream, Mother, Teenage

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• Everybody has similar values. You travel around the world and everybody is different, but everybody is also the same in those ways. There's so much difference but there's so much similarity. Nobody wants to be harmed, or have their children, or their mates, or their relatives, or their families harmed, exploited, bombed, starved, dislocated, or become homeless refugees. So we're all similar in that way and spiritual life and religion is supposed to be part of the solution not part of the problem.

  Surya Das

  Spiritual, Children, Differences

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• In the first centuries of Christianity the hungry were fed at a personal sacrifice, the naked were clothed at a personal sacrifice, the homeless were sheltered at a personal sacrifice... And the pagans used to say about the Christians, "See how they love each other." In our own day the poor are no longer fed, clothed, and sheltered at a personal sacrifice, but at the expense of the taxpayers. And because of this the pagans say about the Christians, "See how they pass the buck."

  Peter Maurin

  Christian, Sacrifice, Naked

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• I'm the person who stops and gives any homeless person any money that they want.

  Shannen Doherty

  Giving, Want, Persons

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• In truth, the cinema as a delivery system obviously has its days numbered. And that's not a bad thing. When you can buy any book in the world on your iPad, or off Amazon, you don't go the public library. The public library becomes about homeless gentlemen sleeping in chairs.

  William Monahan

  Book, Sleep, Ipads

  Source: collider.com

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• Once I saw a homeless man wearing his underwear on top of his pants. Now we say, why don't the homeless just go out and get a job? If he's wearing his underwear on top of his pants, I doubt his resume is in order, and I don't think he's going to make it too far in the interview process. In fact, I'm pretty sure that McDonald's has a no underwear over your pant policy.

  Greg Giraldo

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

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• I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes on. I just thought it was, like, his thang, you know? I was like, 'He's probably in a band.

  Amy Schumer

  Shoes, Ideas, Guy

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• Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact, more humane?

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Dog, Men, Noble

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• I spent all night feeding the homeless to dogs.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Dog, Night, Feeding

  Twitter post from Nov 23, 2012

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• Every Thanksgiving we feed the homeless so they may join us as we celebrate other people finding a home.

  Dana Gould

  Home, People, May

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• I felt like I was homeless anyway, so the change in environment wasn't that much of a big deal. I felt pretty much the same. After six months of living on the streets [in Camden], I started singing, busking.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Singing, Months, Six

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mom, she got taken away from me when I was 14 years old. She is incarcerated. My sister was incarcerated. I was homeless. When my mom went away when I was 14... I was forced to live with my aunt. My aunt, she doesn't like rap music. She thinks rap music is the devil's music. Basically she said, "Yo, if you are going to do music you can't do it in my house."

  Sean Kingston

  Mom, Rap, Taken

  "Sean Kingston Talks About His Hot Song". Interview with Alicia Quarles, www.washingtonpost.com. August 1, 2007.

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