Top 100 Homeless Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into a men's shelter where they face enormous danger, or remaining street homeless and facing the violence, harassment, arrest, and exposure risks of that.
Dean Spade
#3. Sarah watched the man sit
alongside other homeless clients.
Despite their awful circumstances, they
were going on with life, getting through
it as best they could.
Mitch Albom
#4. I am thrice homeless, as a bohemian, as an Austrian, and all over the world, you guessed it right I am Jewish
Gustav Mahler
#5. Great. I'm crying now. I'm a purseless, crying, violent, homeless girl. And as much as I don't want to admit it, I think I might also be heartbroken.
Colleen Hoover
#6. I developed a loyal following. No one knew I was homeless.
Jewel
#7. Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker ... the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this.
Pope Francis
#8. Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America.
Jewel
#9. All of us who covered the Reagans agreed that President Reagan was personable and charming, but I'm not so certain he was nice. It's hard for me to think of anyone as 'nice' when I hear him say 'The homeless are homeless because they want to be homeless.'
Helen Thomas
#10. You'd think the homeless would despise the rest of us, but it seems the thing they want to do most is talk. If only they could sit us down and let it all spill out - every twist of their history, down to the last murmur - then they'd be cured.
Alexander Masters
#11. Forgive me, I don't mean to be rude," Red said to the twins. "It's just every time I see you two I'm heartbroken, kidnapped, or homeless.
Chris Colfer
#12. I was talking to a homeless man at the laundry mat recently, and he said that when we reduce Christian spirituality to math we defile the Holy. I thought that was very beautiful and comforting because I have never been good at math.
Donald Miller
#13. I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.
Dave Mustaine
#14. I'd rather donate 10% of my earnings to homeless people on the street than to an organization that sells negativity that I'll never defeat.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#15. I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people.
Lisa Yuskavage
#16. For my whole life I have dedicated myself to those who have been subjected to injustice. I've conducted investigations and written in newspapers about the homeless, the incarcerated, the sick excluded from care, about child labor, child exploitation, etc.
Dacia Maraini
#17. If God's kingdom looks radical, it is only an indictment on the sort of Christianity we have settled for. Sharing our food with the hungry, opening our homes to the homeless, reconciling with our enemies
these are what Christianity has always been.
Shane Claiborne
#18. You don't really drive in cabs in L.A. unless you're broke or homeless - or if you're broke and driving the cab.
Jay Mohr
#19. We've gotten involved in cat rescue - we take them in and find homes for them. I've always loved cats. I saw how homeless cats were living out there. We take them in, put out flyers.
Greg Ginn
#20. Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower Went up where the homeless had their home.
Jewel
#21. One by one we come to God, young and old, wealthy and homeless, we are diverse: not one of us is alike. Yet similar, we're all learning to live the life God promised, and longing to be fulfilled.
Danise Jurado
#22. I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people's couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.
Sherri Shepherd
#23. Unlove's the heavenless hell and the homeless home
E. E. Cummings
#24. 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
#25. I told myself when I was broke and homeless that my biggest goal was just to have a house. That goal was achieved. I'm just really, really lucky.
Rosa Salazar
#26. When the rivers and air are polluted, when families and nations are at war, when homeless wanderers fill the highways, these are traditional signs of a dark age. Another is that people become poisoned by self-doubt and become cowards.
Pema Chodron
#27. When I was a boy, I passed a homeless man, drunk and begging on a street corner. My father, sensing my disgust, said something I never forgot, that I think of every time I see your face on the news or in the paper- That man was once someone's little boy.
Blake Crouch
#28. This is Mina. She was homeless. I found her. I'm keeping her. She loves me. So we're getting married. And I died. Embarrassment seeped out of me like oozing slime.
Belle Aurora
#29. Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#30. Language, as much as land, is a place. To be cut off from it is to be, in a sense, homeless.
Lauren Collins
#31. I want to avoid people, because there's only one thing worse than being homeless, and that's people who are not, knowing that you are.
Craig Stone
#32. Many feel that sitting at a screen sweating over the design of handrail details for the next cute downtown boutique hotel just doesn't make sense when more than 150,000 people have lost their lives, more than five million people have been made homeless and whole towns have been swept away.
Cameron Sinclair
#34. If she was more curt with her own family than a homeless man this only suggested that generosity was not an infinite quantity and had to be employed strategically where it was most needed.
Zadie Smith
#35. 'Dirtbag' is just the term we use, like a 'gnarly dude' in surfing. Within the climbing culture, it means being a committed lifer: someone who has embraced a minimalist ethic in order to rock climb. It basically means you're a homeless person by choice.
Alex Honnold
#36. All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.
Neil Young
#37. Starbucks is the last public space with chairs. It's a shower for homeless people. And it's a place you can write all day. The baristas don't glare at you. They don't even look at you.
Mike Birbiglia
#38. To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.
Vincent Van Gogh
#39. During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.
Asger Jorn
#41. Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren't spayed or neutered. I'm proud to support PETA's work to prevent animal homelessness.
Kevin Nealon
#42. I'm not sure I can think of anything sadder than a homeless person with a homeless dog.
Chris Bohjalian
#43. Whenever a homeless person speaks to me in the USA, I always assume that I am speaking to a police officer and play along with the suspected charade.
Steven Magee
#44. I've lived in many things - boats, caravans, and buses. I've been homeless, I've had no money: everything. But I believe in magic, and having a vision. The tough times made me a warrior. I work hard.
Neon Hitch
#46. By the way, I've been homeless for the past two years. Some of you may think, Aw, how sad. Others may think, Ha, ha, loser! But if you saw me on the street, ninety-nine percent of you would walk right past like I'm invisible. You'd pray, Don't let him ask me for money.
Rick Riordan
#47. Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?
Mother Teresa
#48. I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.
C.P. Cavafy
#50. Famously sunny Los Angeles has long been known as the homeless capital of America, from beachy communities like Santa Monica and Venice to Skid Row downtown.
John Carlos Frey
#51. Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
Dirk Kempthorne
#52. 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
#53. At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
We will be judged by I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.
Mother Teresa
#54. For me, I grew up in a house doing charity work for homeless people, and my parents had a lot of homeless friends. We were always taught to not discriminate and not judge.
Shenae Grimes
#55. It was like giving a homeless kid a night in a luxury hotel. It only made a bad situation worse. Once a person knows that kind of pleasure, they just wanted it again. And again.
Santino Hassell
#56. Home was never a dream for homeless people as they used to have their homes. Living in a home was their reality. Now we need to help them to find the lost-reality again.
Munia Khan
#57. I looked over. Somehow, I wasn't surprised to find the homeless guy from the rail yard sitting in the shotgun seat. His jeans were so worn out they were almost white. His coat was ripped, with stuffing coming out. He looked kind of like a teddy bear that had been run over by a truck.
Rick Riordan
#58. Your calling may be to find new ways to tell the story of redemption, to create fresh symbols tat will speak of a home for the homeless, the end of exile, the replanting of the garden, the rebuilding of the house.
N. T. Wright
#59. When it comes to happiness, our soul is like a colander, a tire with a nail in it, our grandfather's memory. It feels like there is a homeless person inside of us, wandering around pushing a shopping cart.
John Eldredge
#60. I could so totally rock the homeless scene if I didn't have a baby growing inside me.
Alisa Mullen
#61. We saw people sleeping in homeless encampments in Napa Valley and Sonoma. Horrific ones in Watsonville. It's different because you're looking at homelessness and the lack of housing, less than something that's institutionalized.
Sanjay Rawal
#62. I met a woman working 30 hours a week, trying to make ends meet, three children. And she slept the night before I met her in her car because she's homeless. We can do better. We can build a nation of shared prosperity.
Thomas Perez
#63. I volunteered at a homeless shelter in preparation for 'Being Flynn,' and when I'm walking along the Bowery, that's the first thing that comes to mind. That's a nice memory.
Paul Dano
#64. We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice.
Tony Abbott
#65. 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
#66. I have a son, who is a ... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.
James D. Watson
#67. I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.
Julia Stiles
#68. God is present in the hungry, the homeless, the sick, and the imprisoned, as Jesus claimed in Matthew 25, and we serve God when we serve them.
Philip Yancey
#69. I lived with my godmother and mother in New Zealand until I was seven. They were both Jungian psychologists and had a homeless shelter for street gang members in New Zealand.
Tamaryn
#70. I just think if I can go from being a homeless kid with a dream of being in the biggest band in the world and making that happen, I can do a lot of other cool stuff, too.
Nikki Sixx
#72. He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.
Ken Follett
#73. I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots - the bottom of the bottom - and I have to rationalize it, ... Am I pushing out the homeless?
Thomas Reid
#74. Maybe I was being naive. Even stupid. I mean, who would trade Standford for being homeless? [ ... ] But I had to know if I was meant to be a musician. Otherwise I'd spend the rest of my life regretting it. Asking myself ... what if?
Tara Kelly
#76. What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.
Julianna Baggott
#77. I knew when I was 6. I just knew it; I didn't care about nothing else. If I didn't make it in this world, I would probably be homeless. I gave myself that little to fall back on.
Shawn Wayans
#78. Despite my loyalty, I still ended up on the streets penniless and homeless. Something
Jessica N. Watkins
#79. If a homeless person has a funny sign, he hasn't been homeless for that long. A real homeless person is too hungry to be funny.
Chris Rock
#80. Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person.
Stedman Graham
#81. Today's society is wanting in such a way that Honor, Integrity, Trust, Compassion, Empathy are left for the homeless and their pets.
Solange Nicole
#82. Then I rise disembodied from the dark to grasp and attach myself like a homeless parasite to the shape of my identity and its position in space and time. At first, I cannot find my way, I cannot find myself where I left myself, someone has removed all trace of me.
Janet Frame
#83. A tiny part of me wanted to kick him, too, not because he was homeless, but because he was a judgmental asshole.
Julia Karr
#84. Obviously, I'm not homeless. I'm not an old alcoholic. I'm not jumping trains. I just like to live in a certain way.
Patti Smith
#85. 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
#86. We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.
Neil Young
#87. I watched the rows and rows of chappals left by devotees outside the Hindu temple and wondered if the homeless boys who sometimes steal our chickens ever steal them, and if they do, are they punished, and if so by whom?
Renita D'Silva
#88. No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.
Richard Linklater
#89. Staying in a hotel this time. They put me up in a little bit of a shithole. Yeah. Just this side of rinky dink. The first 7 floors are a homeless shelter, but I'm on 8.
David Spade
#90. Wow. Snubbed by a homeless guy. My night was getting better and better
Jenn Bennett
#91. You're kind of gross. Might want to think about shaving, too, unless you're going for the homeless look with no chance of getting laid.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#92. If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I'd still say no.
Bo Burnham
#93. When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.
Larry David
#94. How do I know Michael hasn't met some other girl?
Some Floridian girl, with long,sun-streaked hair, and a tan,and breasts? Who has access to the Internet and isn't cooped up in a palace with her crazy grandma,a homeless,Speedo-wearing prince and a freakish,hairless miniature poodle?
Meg Cabot
#96. New York is the one place in the world that actively encourages rudeness, because that's the only way to get past the fake bag carriers, homeless people, newspaper thieves, Jesus freaks, and everyone else who wants something and isn't afraid to ask for it, repeatedly, at close range.
Gene Doucette
#97. The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love.
Roman Payne
#98. An old homeless man confronts me quietly with his beard, his missing teeth, and his poverty.
Markus Zusak
#99. Eventually I went back to high school. I went to a coaching center in my neighborhood. I had to leave the homeless situation because it was so bad and I knew that I was falling deeper and deeper.
Luis J. Rodriguez
#100. The challenges that the homeless face aren't dissimilar to those in developing countries.
Leila Janah
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