Quotes About Vagrants

#1. My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.

Toni Morrison

#2. Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers

Gilbert Ryle

#3. Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

Alex Kapranos

#4. Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.

James Q. Wilson

#5. I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.

Anne Fadiman

#6. Stray birds of the summer come to my window to sing and fly away.
And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
O TROUPE of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words ...

Rabindranath Tagore

#7. To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants - a very successful method of passing trouble from one place to the next. It solves nothing in any collective sense.

Aldo Leopold

#8. Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.

Elmer Rice

#9. Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

Mark Twain

#10. As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

John Smith

#11. After all these years, he stood humbled and she stood corrected. Tara's eyes were downcast as she looked at the distance between them. If he had taken a step towards her, she was sure she could take a million too.

Mita Jain

#12. In its wild state, the truth is fluid, slippery, vagrant, scrambled, promiscuous, kaleidoscopic, and beautiful.

Rob Brezsny

#13. I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want.

Jimmy Hoffa

#14. A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

Cato The Younger

#15. A vagrant is everywhere at home.

Martial

#16. The true vagrant is the only king above all comparison.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#17. The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#18. What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.

John Berger

#19. There's no such thing as a 'stressful' situation.

Bill Crawford

#20. I never really watched the TV series.

Zoe Saldana

#21. Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.

Josh Billings

#22. But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

George Eliot

#23. Why has the pleasure of slowness disappeared? Ah, where have they gone, the amblers of yesteryear? Where have they gone, those loafing heroes of folk song, those vagabonds who roam from one mill to another and bed down under the stars?

Milan Kundera

#24. Love is not about oneself, but about the other. It's not about keeping, but about freeing. Love is not love if not shared.

Cristiane Serruya

#25. There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

Gilbert K. Chesterton