Homeless Quotes - Page 9

• Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor; He lived among them.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Jesus, Facts, Poor

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• America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America is the illiterate immigrant who is ashamed that the world of books and intellectual opportunities are closed to him. We are all that nameless foreigner, that homeless refugee, that hungry boy, that illiterate immigrant and that lynched black body. All of us, from the first Adams to the last Filipino, native born or alien, educated or illiterate-We are America!

  Carlos Bulosan

  Country, Jobs, Book

  Carlos Bulosan (1973). “America is In the Heart: A Personal History”, p.22, University of Washington Press

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• One of my first observations about New York that I was so fascinated with was that you'd be at a stoplight and you're with everybody; there's a homeless dude and some weird celebrity and a cop and someone who looks exactly like you. You're on foot and everyone is at street level and eye-to-eye. I think that's what's special about New York, because there's no hierarchy, there's no discrimination.

  Kevin Morby

  New York, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Elie Tahari

  Mean, Succeed

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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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• 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 think you get mentally ill being homeless. Most of the bag ladies wind up mentally ill pretty quickly - what people would call paranoid - because they are in such danger. I don't know if it's really paranoia because they are in great danger. Terrible things happen to them, and they lose everything. How could they not become at the very least severely depressed?

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Thinking, Wind, People

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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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• One summer I was homeless in L.A., when I was about fifteen, and I used to go to the library to get books. I would have books in abandoned cars, in the seats, cubby holes on the L.A. River, just to have books wherever I could keep them, I just loved to have books. And that really helped me. I didn't realize it was going to be my destiny; I didn't know I was going to be a writer.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Summer, Book, Destiny

  Source: bluemesareview.org

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You can do some serious subway flirting before you realize the guy is homeless.

  LIZ

  Flirting, Rocks, Guy

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• I have donated money to the kids overseas, the open hand project and the homeless.

  Terrell Owens

  Kids, Hands, Projects

  "T.O. With Terrell Owens". Interview With Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. July 8, 2004.

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• You are better off being homeless than being me.

  Britney Spears

  Being Me, Better Off

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