Homeless Quotes - Page 17

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

  Tony Abbott

  People, Choices, Ifs

  "The Authentic Mr Abbott". "Four Corners" with Liz Jackson, www.abc.net.au. March 15, 2010.

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• I was homeless for about 8 months, I refused to live with my dad or anyone for that matter. So I stayed somewhere that had no hot water, ever, no heat, I told myself I have to be strong and get through it on my own.

  Eric West

  Strong, Dad, Water

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• 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

  Brother, Elderly, Sick

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• Though liberals have portrayed themselves throughout the past several decades as champions of the homeless, they are actually guilty of having created and perpetuated their condition.

  Mona Charen

  Past, Champion, Guilty

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• Yet some of the most faithful, effective Christians I know are those who are living out their quiet calling to the few in their home, to their fledging church, or to the homeless under a bridge in their city. Nothing is meager or insignificant about that.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Christian, Home, Bridges

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• God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.

  Mother Teresa

  Compassion, People, Giving

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• What's a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Creative

  Song: New Math, Album: Bo Burnham

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• I really made the cartoon Life with Louie with one reason in mind: I didn't have a very good relationship with my dad, and we didn't all watch TV together like we should've, like you hope for, like you've seen on TV, and I wanted to make it for moms and dads and their kids. That was always my goal. And then I wanted to put real things in it. We did a thing about the homeless and won a Humanitas award for that.

  Louie Anderson

  Mom, Dad, Real

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You know what the Quran teaches me? The Quran teaches me that an incredibly wealthy man can be a failure (Firaun) and a homeless man can be successful (Prophet Ibrahim). It teaches me that success has nothing to do with wealth and failure has nothing to do with poverty.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Inspirational, Success, Religious

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Oct 02, 2014

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• When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called rappers.

  Carlos Mencia

  Rapper, White, People

  "Mind of Mencia". Comedy Series, 2005 - 2008.

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• Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home. There are so many young people who are homeless. They may have a building to live in, but they are homeless in their hearts. That is why the most important practice of our time is to give each person a home.

  Nhat Hanh

  Home, Heart, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2000). “Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers”, p.52, Penguin

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• 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

  Believe, Hard Work, Warrior

  "Know Now: Neon Hitch". Interview with Catherine Straut, www.elle.com. April 16, 2012.

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• To lose our connection with the body is to become spiritually homeless.  Without an anchor we float aimlessly, battered by the winds and waves of life

  Anodea Judith

  Anchors, Wind, Wave Of Life

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• 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

  Talking, President, United States

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• Success to me is self-determined, the life I live today, to come from a kid strung out on angel dust, homeless, at some points sleeping in the street. No money, not knowing where the next meal was coming from. No sex, no relationships, people that didn't love me, didn't care about me, to where I am today... that's successful. When I signed my record deal I always wanted to be respected by my peers for my ability and my skill level.

  Joe Budden

  Sex, Sleep, Kids

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• Kids? It's like living with homeless people. They're cute but they just chase you around all day long going, 'Can I have a dollar? I'm missing a shoe! I need a ride!

  Kathleen Madigan

  Cute, Children, Kids

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• As an adult, I think I wanna be living in New York City and help a lot of homeless people and try to become vegan and maybe be a band with some good friends and be making a living and be happy with how much money I have.

  Rachel Trachtenburg

  New York, Good Friend, Thinking

  "The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway". Documentary, August 1, 2006.

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• You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Single, Country, Believe

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• [On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?

  Patti Davis

  Father, Sleep, America

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• I was homeless. I lived in a car for a couple of years. That was the worst. But nothing was worse than when I was 40 and my mom passed away. My mother was the best person I ever knew. Those were the two lowest points.

  Steve Harvey

  Mom, Mother, Couple

  "Steve Harvey tells moviegoers how to "Think Like a Man"". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. April 17, 2012.

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• Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!

  Robert Southey

  Roots, Choices, Affection

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• I've been homeless on a few occasions.

  Jay Electronica

  Occasions

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• The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless shelter for people with liberal arts degrees. The cages brought to mind those labs with their death-fuming vents near my college studio. These kids were part of some great experiment. It was maybe the same one in which I'd once been a subject. Unlike me, though, or the guinea pigs and hares, they were happy, or seemed happy, or were blogging about how they seemed happy.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Art, Kids, College

  Sam Lipsyte (2010). “The Ask: A Novel”, p.187, Macmillan

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• I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe is fleeting and incomplete. Into the homeless home of the sun-faced buddha I have stepped but briefly. My quest, such as it is, is rewarded with faint lights and scrawny cries, a trait here and trait there, a hint of the infinite and a tingle in the spine. Of "minute particulars" I will make my way.

  Chet Raymo

  Stars, Home, Night

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

  Jim Norton

  Looks, Chef, Mario

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