Homeless Quotes - Page 10

• Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Demand, Firsts, Ethics

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• We always look at the 'Fortune ,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Glasses, Safety

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• The Girl Scouts is where I became acquainted with the idea that a woman can do anything. Learning that early on has a tremendous impact on the development of a young girl's personality. It had a huge impact on me. Girl Scouts is where I first learned about philanthropy and fell in love with the concept of helping others-in my troop this was very important. We did a lot of community service like picking up trash and feeding the homeless. Loving humankind was something that echoed throughout my time at Girl Scouts.

  Lisa Ling

  Girl, Helping Others, Impact

  "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect", abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

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• My home is a place of warmth and love. No one should be denied a home.

  Gail Porter

  Home, Warmth And Love, Should

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• Home is a sanctuary for me and the place where I can relax. Everyone should have the right to a safe and secure home.

  Corinne Bailey Rae

  Home, Should Have, Relax

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.

  Amartya Sen

  Opportunity, Water, People

  Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.4, Anchor

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• When my syndicated show got canceled, the next day I still knew how to write jokes. That was a huge revelation. Because at first you think, "I won't have any shelter! What am I gonna do? The sun is hot. Very thirsty."

  Jon Stewart

  Writing, Thinking, Next Day

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• People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.

  Michael Zaslow

  Dog, Lying, Sick

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• We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Numbers, Justice, This Generation

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• I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

  Shane Claiborne

  Mother, Tears, Systematic

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless.

  Cynthia Nixon

  New York, Men, Available

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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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• No matter how much you give a homeless person for tea... you never get that tea.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Giving

  Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.89, Penguin

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• Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding in wistful discomfort. The magic that gleams an instant between Argos and Odysseus is both the recognition of diversity and the need for affection across the illusions of form. It is nature's cry to homeless, far-wandering, insatiable man: "Do not forget your brethren, nor the green wood from which you sprang. To do so is to invite disaster.

  Loren Eiseley

  Dog, Men, Cities

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• Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of.

  Sara Gruen

  Dog, Horse, Elephants

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.296, Hachette UK

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• They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it's just a disaster for everyone.

  Teri Hatcher

  Home, Thinking, Cities

  "Music stars' hearts are with Katrina victims". www.today.com. September 2, 2005.

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• I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

  Elie Tahari

  Mean, Succeed

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• When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy diva Barbie and she'd be the homeless Barbie.

  Jordana Brewster

  Crazy, Character, Barbie Dolls

  "Jordana Brewster: Coming to Attention". Interview with Dennis Hensley, movieline.com. January 1, 2001.

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• Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that we are able to effect the most profound changes in the people around us. When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness. Our listening creates sanctuary for the homeless parts within the other person. That which has been denied, unloved, devalued by themselves and others. That which is hidden.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Powerful, Healing, Opportunity

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.159, Penguin

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• In this culture the soul and the heart too often go homeless. Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time. And in the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone. Eventually you may be able to hear, in everyone and beyond everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Heart, People, Silence

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• Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth, currents from the Mackenzie and the Athabasca and the Saskatchewan, and from the prairies and the white Tundra. It is a homeless wind, forever on the move.

  Hal Borland

  Moving, Air, Wind

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• I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.

  Gustav Mahler

  Austria, World, Jew

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in a future or a past which are not ours because they are always beyond our reach. The present is our right place, and we can lay hands on whatever it offers us.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Past, Hands

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.231, Shambhala Publications

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• Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Church, World

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