Quotes About Homeless Youth

#1. We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.

Ruben Hinojosa

#2. 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

#3. That's how life works. You know it when you know it.
They're nineteen and in love. Alone except for each other. Jobless and homeless, looking for something, somewhere, anywhere here.
They're on a sixteen-line highway.
Driving west.

James Frey

#4. When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

Dougray Scott

#5. 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

#6. Dave: 'Will you ever be happy Echo?'
Echo: 'I don't know I haven't tried it yet.'
Dave: 'Let's give it a shot together.'
Echo: 'Let's spread fire instead.

Jim Goldberg

#7. Now Sally plunged her abruptly into the full strangeness of this place, with its rot and randomness rooting towers taller than any in Tokyo, corporate obelisks that pierced the sooty lacework of overlapping domes.

William Gibson

#8. Quit looking for an answer, Jim. There fuckin' ain't one. Fuck yeah, I'm still looking for God's telephone number.

Jim Goldberg

#9. 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

#10. But if the gods only cursed us, then we would hate them. And if they only blessed us, then - well, then we'd care nothing for their laws because we'd respect nothing but our own pleasure.

Kate Elliott

#11. I want to move away from sampling records and just have it be quite minimal. I don't want any more hip-hop beats in there.

Gold Panda

#12. The value of a gift is much enhanced by sparing an honest man the misery of asking for it with confusion and blushes.

Anonymous

#13. When religion and politics ride the same cart, when that cart is driven by a living holy man (baraka), nothing can stand in their path.

Frank Herbert

#14. I show Dave the dummy for my book. He reads every bit of writing, looks at every picture, and asks no questions. When he's done, he wipes his hands on the book.

Jim Goldberg

#15. I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.

Nathaniel Rateliff

#16. You gonna leave me anything?

Randolph Randy Camp