Homeless Quotes - Page 5

• When I was in Afghanistan in 2007, I went from village to village where refugees had returned, and they were living out in the open under tents, sometimes completely exposed to the environment. And they were homeless, which meant they would lose children in the winter to the cold and in the summers in the extreme heat. It's extremely humiliating for them to be homeless, culturally it's very shameful.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Summer, Children, Winter

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Pete Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 2009.

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• Ronald Reagan came from show business. His idea of how the government should help the homeless was like your agent. "We'll try to get you work. But don't bug us about it."

  Bill Maher

  Funny, Government, Ideas

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• Giving homeless children the chance to be educated, giving them this ticket to their futures, is so wonderful. They will have the chance to not repeat the suffering of their childhoods in their own families. They can build secure and safe lives for themselves and their children.

  Laura Bush

  Children, Giving, Childhood

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far.

  Ward Churchill

  Bridges, People, Sound

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• For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

  Andre Dubus

  Twenties, Tonight, Useless

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• 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'.

  Hugh Leonard

  Weather, News, Hurricanes

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• To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals."

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  America, Born, Fugitive

  "Why Homelessness Is Becoming an Occupy Wall Street Issue" by Barbara Ehrenreich, www.motherjones.com. October 24, 2011.

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• We saw people sleeping in homeless encampments in Napa Valley and Sonoma. Horrific ones in Watsonville. It's different because you're looking at homelessness and the lack of housing, less than something that's institutionalized.

  Sanjay Rawal

  Sleep, People, Different

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

  Neil Young

  Gun, Men, Light

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• You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland.

  Cristina Garcia

  Bird, Switzerland, Locks

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• 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, People, Singing

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• Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music.

  Moby

  New York, Islamic, People

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• When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

  Andy Andrews

  Mom, Dad, Cancer

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

  Jewel

  Loyal, Following

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• Yet what is to be done with events that have no place of their own in time; events that have occurred too late, after the whole of time has been distributed, divided, and allotted; events that have been left in the cold, unregistered, hanging in the air, homeless, and errant?

  Bruno Schulz

  Air, Events, Too Late

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing.

  Philip Roth

  Home, Numbers, America

  Philip Roth (1995). “Sabbath's Theater”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken; or not broken, it simply wasn't there any more. It had been scooped neatly out of me like the yolk from a hard-boiled egg, leaving the rest of me bloodless and congealed and hollow. I'm heartless, I thought. Therefore I'm homeless.

  Margaret Atwood

  Home, Heart, Eggs

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.447, Anchor

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• I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'

  Hill Harper

  Dream, Jobs, Quitting

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• The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are a great number of working poor, struggling to survive, who don't have enough money to put adequate food on the table. We must find a solution to this ever-increasing problem - and quickly.

  Scott Glenn

  Struggle, Numbers, Adequate

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• 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, Mean, Writing

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• All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

  Neil Young

  Talking, People, Downtown

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• The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were full of stories of worker layoffs and farm foreclosures and bank failures, just as they are today. All that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a Great Depression. We may even be hiding a Third World War.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, People, May

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.92, Dial Press

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• You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with - at the end of it, you and I are just as stripped and homeless. And you and I are the last remembrance of all that immeasurable greatness which has been created in all the thousands of years between their time and ours, and it is in memory of all that vanished splendour that we live and love and weep and cling to one another.

  Boris Pasternak

  Memories, Greatness, Years

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• A homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell the same way about playing John Madden Football immediately after filing my income tax: It's fun, but - somehow - vaguely pathetic.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Football, Fun, Rap

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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