The Homeless Quotes

In a cold night, even if there is only one homeless living on the streets, this means that you are living in a God damn bad society! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president. — John Cusack

Bit yells, Homeless Hungry? Dude, I invented Homeless Hungry. The kid just waves. — Jess Walter

I decided right then and there that if home is where the heart is, my heart has been homeless for a very long time. — Nicole Baart

Even though she was jobless, penniless, and homeless, he was the needy one. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The law is that the hungry must be fed, and the homeless must be housed, and the sick must be healed. That is the way of the Light." Maerad — Alison Croggon

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

I'll tell ya, my wife and I, we don't think alike. She donates money to the homeless, and I donate money to the topless! — Rodney Dangerfield

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

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

Every Thanksgiving we feed the homeless so they may join us as we celebrate other people finding a home. — Dana Gould

When an officer finds themselves arresting pastors that are feeding people who have nothing, they should know they're on the wrong side. — Justin King

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

They [homeless people] are constructed ideologically to be oppressed to the level of losing their humanity. It is not by chance it is a design. — Bruno De Oliveira

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

The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face. — Jeremy Hardy

I will never again look at the homeless people the way I did before entering Bowery Mission. — Stevan V. Nikolic

Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults. — Maya Angelou

Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor; He lived among them. — Dillon Burroughs

The townhouses looked bedraggled, unkempt, like an old homeless woman with an interesting history but a perilous future. — Sharon Shinn

I am completely penniless, and absolutely homeless. Yet there are worse things in the world than that. — Oscar Wilde

Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering. — Shannon L. Alder

Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable. — Daniel Quinn

Let your love be the kindness to make a homeless person believe that a soul needs something more than just four walls and a ceiling. — Munia Khan

I am a worthy cause," said Jack. "No. You are a bum," said the man. — Janet Schulman

The baby Jesus was the last homeless person the Republicans liked. — Andy Borowitz

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him. — Jack Kerouac

The challenges that the homeless face aren't dissimilar to those in developing countries. — Leila Janah

While wishing a beautiful snowing for the streets of your city, do not forget also to wish a warm house for the homeless! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

I don't know what's worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them. — Anthony Liccione

You're kind of gross. Might want to think about shaving, too, unless you're going for the homeless look with no chance of getting laid. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I swear I'm not going to lose it, or drop it in the gutter, or give it to a homeless guy. — Julie Kagawa

He found her utterly fascinating, a nameless, homeless, naked vampire, sleeping away the day in his bed, wanted by state and federal police. — Travis Luedke

Unlove's the heavenless hell and the homeless home — E. E. Cummings

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

I'd rather donate 10% of my earnings to homeless people on the street than to an organization that sells negativity that I'll never defeat. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower Went up where the homeless had their home. — Jewel

See, the good Lord loves everybody. He don't care what color your hair is or where you put your jewelry. — Randolph Randy Camp

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

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men. — Danny Glover

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

You don't really drive in cabs in L.A. unless you're broke or homeless - or if you're broke and driving the cab. — Jay Mohr

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

To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow. — Shannon L. Alder

Where do the homeless make toast? — Angela Flournoy

Today's society is wanting in such a way that Honor, Integrity, Trust, Compassion, Empathy are left for the homeless and their pets. — Solange Nicole

You can do some serious subway flirting before you realize the guy is homeless. — LIZ

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

Holy fucking dogs! You scared the uterus out of me! — Debra Anastasia

they asked the poor what it was like to be poor, the hungry what it was like to be hungry, the homeless what it was like to be homeless. — Arundhati Roy

The thing I miss most from home, is having a home. — Anthony Liccione

I'm the person who stops and gives any homeless person any money that they want. — Shannen Doherty

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

During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength. — Asger Jorn

When people say there is no place like home, the first to agree are the homeless. — J.R. Rim

The idea of having faith in anything to a homeless teenager is just asinine. — J.L. Mac

Hawaii is #1 in teen suicide and in homeless kids per capita. Incredible but true. We can change it using the power of IT education. — David Gaynes

If you see a lonely homeless, ask this question: Where the hell the society is? And here is the answer: It is rotten and enjoying somewhere! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I am thrice homeless, as a bohemian, as an Austrian, and all over the world, you guessed it right I am Jewish — Gustav Mahler

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

I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely? — Dolly Parton

Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, Talk nerdy to me. — Lena Dunham

Maybe that was the dragon part of me coming out, but the thought of being homeless didn't scare me as much as losing one of my books. — Jamie K. Schmidt

The world of the homeless is a tough and interesting world. — Paul Dano

In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ. — Billy Graham

I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man. — Novak Djokovic

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend. — Wallace Stegner

Forgive me, I don't mean to be rude," Red said to the twins. "It's just every time I see you two I'm heartbroken, kidnapped, or homeless. — Chris Colfer

As my friend and I talked, a homeless man sang just across the street from us, and we caught his voice in the snatches as the wind came over in gusts. — Teju Cole

The homeless man wasn't some untouchable stain on business. He was the reason that store opened its doors this morning (or any morning) — Joey Mustain

People are priceless. A chance meeting with a loving human being was worth more than any amount of money in the world. I felt rich. — Victor Castelo

God is present in the hungry, the homeless, the sick, and the imprisoned, as Jesus claimed in Matthew 25, and we serve God when we serve them. — Philip Yancey

Written for the Homeless
My soul does not find mercy -
Somewhere on the bank of oblivion;
There,
Where hunger freezes my bones to death. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

My own theory is that the spectacle of the homeless may be necessary to keep the rest of us on the straight and narrow ... — Auberon Waugh

Help for the sick and hungry,
home for the homeless folk,
peace in the world forever,
this is my prayer, O Lord. Amen. — Anne Lamott

We are homeless enough in this world under the best of circumstances without going to any special effort to test our capacity to be more so. — Harold Edmund Stearns

You're taking the bus around Burbank?" Lester said. "Christ, Perry, this is Los Angeles. Even homeless people drive cars. — Cory Doctorow

Where do the homeless have 90 per cent of their accidents? — Bob Monkhouse

Don't say I'm lucky. Ever. — Faith Erin Hicks

The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant. — E. M. Forster

There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless. — Cynthia Nixon

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless. — John Kenneth Galbraith

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

The homes
I've built
in people
are falling
apart
and I'm
afraid
of being
homeless. — Ameena Karaja

I have to find a place to hide
An island in the sea
Surrounded by a racing tide
Where I can live with me — Laurie Matthew

We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems. — Ruben Hinojosa

What's a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy — Bo Burnham

A homeless guy came up to me on the street, said he hadn't eaten in four days. I told him, Man, I wish I had your willpower. — Rodney Dangerfield

The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living! — Jeremy Irvine

When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place. — P. J. O'Rourke

Is there a homeless guy built in to the design of Dunkin' Donuts? ... There'll be an entrance here ... a deranged lunatic here. — Jim Gaffigan

The Key to overcoming the challenges in life is to make up your mind to overcome the Challenge — Carlton Young

Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend — Ebenezer Elliott

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

Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone's father or someone's mother and they have a story. — Syesha Mercado

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home. — G.K. Chesterton

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me. — Shane Claiborne

I did a gig in the U.S. once for the homeless. I said 'It's nice to see so many bums on seats.' — Jimmy Carr