Homeless Quotes

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa

Greatest, Sometimes, Poverty

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy, Liberty, Mad

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
Ronald Reagan

Food, Medical, Long

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
Ronald Reagan

Best, Country, Problem

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.
Jan Schakowsky

Help, Control, Cannot

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

Good, Future, Person

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

Good, Living, Around

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home.
Eric McCormack

Home, Crazy, Live

Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.
Morgan Freeman

Time, Job, Happen

Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.
Pras Michel

Away, Seven, Paycheck

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Philip Emeagwali

Made, Stronger, Prison

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.
Annie Lennox

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.
Jello Biafra

Money, Football, Poor

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.
Tony Campolo

Work, Government, Care

I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?
Dustin Hoffman

Alone, Mind, Drunk

I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.
John Cusack

Time, War, Remember

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

Two, Born, Ghetto

From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing £20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough.
Julie Burchill

Money, Friends, Enough

I've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven.
Dennis Rodman

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.
Jewel

Fun, Writing, Mean

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

Government, Alone, Crisis

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

Amazing, Laugh, Journey

We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.
Linda Lingle

Problem, Situation, Close

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
Ben Okri

Happy, Friends, Miserable

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
Ben Okri

Home, Find, Anyone

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.
Jerzy Kosinski

Life, Philosophy, Makes

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

Happened, Cares, Asking

I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
Jewel

Coffee, Started, Hear

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

Life, Anger, Pain

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

Change, Care, Become

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