Homeless Quotes - Page 6

• Then a homeless man with a dog approached us and put his hand out. This happens to be something that I have a real problem with: homeless people with pets who approach you for food when they have a perfectly delicious dog standing right there?

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Dog, Real

  Chelsea Handler (2012). “Are you there Vodka? It's me, Chelsea”, p.239, Random House

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• Don’t you like them? (Nykyrian) Did you see the price? (Kiara) I’m more than capable of supplying you with several wardrobes from here. (Nykyrian) But– (Kiara) But nothing, mu Tara. Start shoping. (Nykyrian) This really isn’t– (Kiara) Kiara. Buy clothes or go naked. Personally, naked works for me. (Nykyrian) Fine. When you’re homeless and bankrupt, remember I tried to stop you. (Kiara)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Clothes, Naked, Remember

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• The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president.

  John Cusack

  Beach, Talking, Years

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• There's something I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.

  Denver Moore

  Opportunity, Rope, Way

  Ron Hall, Denver Moore (2008). “Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together”, p.169, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The truth about it is, whether we is rich or poor or something in between, this earth ain't no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless - just workin our way toward home.

  Denver Moore

  Home, Rich Or Poor, Finals

  Ron Hall, Denver Moore (2008). “Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together”, p.235, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

  E. M. Forster

  Liberty, Heritage, Care

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• I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children and Aids victims. It was like a fairy tale. Who was she really? Why did she do this? She was trying to find love. I wanted the world to see her kindness, her humility: I think she realised that would be her way.

  Mario Testino

  Children, Kindness, Humility

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• I started my own foundation. If you aren't familiar with it, it's called 'Febreezing the homeless.' Who would you rather give money to: a man that smells 4like liquiid garbage, or ocean breeze?

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Ocean, Men

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• I used to spend a lotta time worryin that I was different from other people, even from other homeless folks. Then, after I met Miss Debbie and Mr. Ron, I worried that I was so different from them that we wadn't ever gon' have no kind a' future. But I found out everybody's different - the same kind of different as me. We're all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us. The truth about it is, whether we is rich or poor or somethin in between, this earth ain't no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless - just workin our way toward home.

  Denver Moore

  Home, Rich Or Poor, People

  Ron Hall, Denver Moore (2008). “Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together”, p.235, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?

  Dolly Parton

  Believe, Charity, Lines

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• The only difference between me and a homeless man is this job. I will do whatever it takes to survive…like I did when I was a homeless man.

  Creed Bratton

  Jobs, Men, Differences

  "The Office: Product Recall". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things.

  Rodney Mullen

  Eye, Night, Talking

  "Rodney Mullen Skates Central Park" by Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2012.

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• What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

  Samantha Morton

  Circles, People, Drug

  "Actor Morton tells of teenage criminal record" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us the sounds of the streets and the sounds of nature, and make us see once again that they are parts of the same song. She celebrates American lives as they are lived today: the mother scrubbing her kitchen floor at midnight, the drag-queens in the Tenderloin, the homeless woman knitting in the courtyard. This is poetry that relentlessly shows us the beauty in the world, with all its struggles and complexity, and demands that we go out to meet it with open hearts.

  Diane di Prima

  Mother, Song, Strong

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• If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take the Gospels seriously, how can we not see industrial warfare - with its inevitable massacre of innocents - as a most shocking perversion? By the standard of all scriptures, neglect of the poor, of widows and orphans, of the sick, the homeless, the insane, is an abominable perversion.

  Wendell Berry

  Widows And Orphans, Sick, Insane

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• Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle loafers who hoard the gold only to spend it on riotous living are rolling about in fine carriages from which they look out on peaceful meetings and call them riots?

  Samuel Gompers

  Country, Peaceful, Gold

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• Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself. . . . The worker therefore feels himself at home only during his leisure time, whereas at work he feels homeless.

  Karl Marx

  Home, Doe, Leisure

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, John E. Elliott (1981). “Marx and Engels on economics, politics, and society: essential readings with editorial commentary”

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• Thou wayfaring Jesus - a pilgrim and stranger, Exiled from heaven by love at Thy birth: Exiled again from Thy rest in the manger, A fugitive child 'mid the perils of earth - Cheer with Thy fellowship all who are weary, Wandering far from the land that they love: Guide every heart that is homeless and dreary, Safe to its home in Thy presence above.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Jesus, Children, Cheer

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities put forth a startling statistic: Depending on the study, somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of homeless youths identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

  Margot Adler

  Gay, Bisexual, Cities

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• It could be anything, give a homeless guy a sandwich, help an old lady across the street like anything to make this world a better place. If everybody just did one good thing for another person like a selfless good deed just think about how much a better place this would be.

  Frank Iero

  Thinking, Giving, Guy

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• We Jews are accused of being destroyers: whatever you put up, we tear down. It is true only in a relative sense. We are not iconoclasts deliberately: we are not enemies of your institutions simply because of the dislike between us. We are a homeless mass seeking satisfaction for our constructive instincts. And in your institutions we cannot find satisfaction.

  Maurice Samuel

  Enemy, Tears, Satisfaction

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• Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?

  Pope Francis

  Elderly, Order, Two

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

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• Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full.

  Al Gore

  Religious, Children, Years

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• When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

  Andy Andrews

  Mom, Dad, Cancer

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• Yet what is to be done with events that have no place of their own in time; events that have occurred too late, after the whole of time has been distributed, divided, and allotted; events that have been left in the cold, unregistered, hanging in the air, homeless, and errant?

  Bruno Schulz

  Air, Events, Too Late

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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