Homeless Quotes

• I've been homeless on a few occasions.

  

  Timothy Elpadaro Thedford
  • Homeless

• During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • School
  • High
  • Focus

• Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time.

  

  Jennifer McMahon
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy who wanted to be a great painter and the guy who is a great painter could be anything.

  

  Neil Burger
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Homeless

• 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
  • Pregnant

• The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I realized eventually that when I ran out of places to stay and found myself on the D train and in Central Park, I was actually homeless.

  

  Liz Murray
  • Homeless

• Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don’t understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs…) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail than women who fail.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

  

  Danny Glover
  • Men
  • Relationship
  • Homeless

• I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame.

  

  Joel Sternfeld
  • People
  • Homeless

• 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
  • People
  • Change
  • Homeless

• It is true that I do not wear shoes as the host of 'Bunk.' I want 'Bunk' to feel like there's a slight possibility that a confident homeless man just wondered into the studio and started hosting a game show.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • True
  • Game
  • Shoes

• The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I got a job I used to miss the curfew for the shelter. So I ended up sleeping outside in the streets.

  

  Timothy Elpadaro Thedford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Job

• The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face.

  

  Jeremy Hardy
  • Past
  • Homeless

• Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.

  

  Linda Lingle
  • Homeless

• I was homeless when I was younger and I was suicidal when I was 21. Anything that has happened after that is like water off a duck's back.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Water
  • Homeless
  • Suicidal

• I was homeless for almost a year and a half, just living in my car or bouncing around peoples' houses, going to 7-Eleven at the end of the day and asking them for the taquitos that they were going to throw out because I hadn't eaten in two days.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Car
  • Homeless

• I want to deal with the homeless situation here in Washington, D.C. I think it is a travesty that we've got men - and increasingly women - families, across the street and the in shadow of this great capital, that shows a lack of concern, not just for the capital, but for American, when we are allowing something like that to happen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Look, that homeless guy is sleeping on my face. New York really is where dreams come true.

  

  Rachel
  • True
  • Guy
  • Dream

• 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
  • Family
  • Society
  • Individual

• Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

  

  Jerzy Kosinski
  • Life
  • Homeless

• Decent wages keep people out of homeless shelters. Decent wages allow families to afford books and, I don't know, school fees and things like that.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • People
  • School
  • Homeless

• Some celebrities like to get behind water conservation or helping the homeless get back on their feet. Me? Body grooming control: that's what I like to step behind 100 percent.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Control
  • Water
  • Homeless

• that have reportedly left thousands of the most vulnerable homeless and destitute and called on the government to abide by the rule of law and respect for human rights.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Law
  • Respect
  • Government

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