Homeless Kids Quotes

#1. Life in a shelter or on the streets puts homeless kids and youth at a higher risk for physical and sexual assault and abuse, physical illness, including HIV/AIDS

Jewel

#2. Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.

Jewel

#3. Hawaii is #1 in teen suicide and in homeless kids per capita. Incredible but true. We can change it using the power of IT education.

David Gaynes

#4. I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#5. Homeless people really upset me when I was little. A lot of kids have this reaction, but I would get really worried or sad or concerned or cry.

Paul Dano

#6. I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this ...

Marion Cotillard

#7. England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#8. Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Coco Chanel

#9. When I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?

Thomas Jane

#10. Street children are lovely blossoms just dropped from the tree after a heavy storm. Now they need to be put together with a needle and threads of security and shelter to live into a beautiful circle of life's garland

Munia Khan

#11. He is a truly free man, who does not need money to live.

Nael Gharzeddine

#12. All my friends are rock critics, so we talk about rock criticism a lot. Because of that, in order to be part of the conversation, you have to have an awareness of what the discussion is.

Chuck Klosterman

#13. My sister has a non-profit organization called Mission Change. It helps the homeless and kids.

Phillip Phillips

#14. an honest man is the man who keeps his own counsel, and will not divide the plunder.

Honore De Balzac

#15. Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and their elders' cold unconcern toward others. Maybe the homeless are not the only ones who need to spend time in these places to thaw out.

Anna Quindlen

#16. Your wealth can be stolen, but the precious riches buried deep in your soul cannot.

Minnie Riperton

#17. In second grade, I told a bunch of kids there was a homeless person living between the portable classrooms outside our school. It caused panic, and the principal had to announce on the P.A. system that no one was living there. I pretended I didn't know who started the rumor.

Alessia Cara

#18. I mean, they say they've gotta change the street kids' lives. Well, that's true. But you can't take somebody from point A to point Z overnight. You can't make me a fucking suburban teenager now, after what's gone down. It'll never happen.

Jim Goldberg

#19. Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

Justin Sane

#20. I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

Elmore Leonard

#21. Jack, we gotta chance to make a difference in their lives. They need us. How can we go back to that big empty house knowing that these kids got no place to call home?

Randolph Randy Camp

#22. There are millions of homeless children in the world - which proved again that kids were a low-value commodity, didn't it? I mean, there are very few homeless Bentleys in the world.

Jeff Lindsay

#23. I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.

Ian Hart

#24. The family that prays together, still probably dies in the fire.

Joey Comeau

#25. Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.

P.G. Wodehouse

#26. 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

#27. Kids? It's like living with homeless people. They're cute but they just chase you around all day long going, 'Can I have a dollar? I'm missing a shoe! I need a ride!

Kathleen Madigan

#28. As a child psychiatrist, I knew too much about the statistics of foster care - less than one percent graduate college with a bachelor's degree, more than fifty percent of foster kids end up homeless after reaching eighteen, and most are dead by twenty-six.

Penny Reid