Best 163 quotes in «homeless quotes» category

When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity and your own.

When YOU stop believing one person in the world cannot make a difference; differences in the world will be made.

You know... the word "homeless", gives you this very negative image. A filthy raggedy hobo... it's no good. It's too demeaning of a word if you ask me. It's just not politically correct enough... If it were up to me, I'd rather we be called "residentially challenged

You drive in a Maybach past a homeless person and you ask, 'Who's more free?' You could be trapped to your possessions.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. ("Dusk To Dawn")

A homeless man standing at the off-ramp: the question in these moments isn't whether Jesus is in Him, but in me.

An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.

Being homeless is awful, but if you've ever tried to wrestle a duvet cover back onto a comforter you realise it's not without it's benefits.

Homeless people bear God's image too.

I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

I developed a loyal following. No one knew I was homeless.

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.

I know what it's like to be hungry. I know what it's like to be homeless. I know what it's like to have to choose between breaking the law and feeding yourself. I know what it's like to take meals at shelters and at Salvation Army facilities. I know what it's like to beg for money on the streets.

I have donated money to the kids overseas, the open hand project and the homeless.

I live out of a bag. I just looked at what's going on for me, I'm not gonna be back in England for more than a week between now and March of next year, I think, which is crazy. By that time the lease is up on my apartment! I'm getting a kick out of being homeless.

I made The Instigator while I was homeless as a result of 9/11, and there was some stuff on there that was really raw and directly out of that experience

I'm afraid of the general things that everyone is afraid of: a bump in the night that could be a cat or Death dragging his sickle across the room; losing my health; becoming homeless, never meeting George Clooney.

In June, 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since.

It's so bad being homeless in winter. They should go somewhere warm like the Caribbean where they can eat fresh fish all day.

I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets!

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?

It's not being homeless that matters. It's about who you are. Keep striving and you become somebody. Quit and you also become somebody.. but not the same person.

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.

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.

That's something that I learned when I was homeless. Hotels are awesome because they are going to let you in and you can use the bathroom and when you're young and pretty you can probably use the pool. Somebody might by you a drink.

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.

Of course money buys happiness. You ever seen a homeless person skip? The answer to that riddle's no. They're not allowed.

People are not homeless if they're sleeping in the streets of their own hometowns.

Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.

Mario you are a great chef but you look like a homeless James Gandolfini.

We just can’t stop people from being homeless if that’s their choice.

The council in Blackpool have given the homeless bus passes, but how would they know where to get off?

There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless.

We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe

We Jews are accused of being destroyers: whatever you put up, we tear down. It is true only in a relative sense. We are not iconoclasts deliberately: we are not enemies of your institutions simply because of the dislike between us. We are a homeless mass seeking satisfaction for our constructive instincts. And in your institutions we cannot find satisfaction.

What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could not submit to such demands; rather would I choose the path of a homeless wanderer; yes, even go without love.

What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness.

When homeless people go camping, how do they know?

Be prepared to be homeless if you're into making people your home.

When you are live you never know what is going to happen.

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

After soft kisses, they pressed their hands together palm to palm. The tingling scattered all over Livia's body, warming her. "Do you feel that?" she whispered with a smile. His lips moved in his silent count. Blake wrapped his fingers around her hand. She copied the movement. Their hands together now resembled a heart-not a cartoon rendering of the shape, but a real human heart. He touched her lips with his and murmured, "I've been feeling it since you first smiled at me.

A homeless man once said "God bless you, sir". I wonder if he really meant it.

A homeless with hope is in a better situation than a hopeless with home!

And what's more, he'll go and live with his friend unless his friend is allowed to come in and live with him...His friend must have a silk cushion just like his and sleep in your room too. Otherwise he will go and sleep in the coal-cellar with his friend

Aren't we all homeless without a home inside our mind?