Homeless People Quotes:

...these things become the norm: that some homeless people die of cold on the streets is not news. In contrast, a ten point drop on the stock markets of some cities, is a tragedy. A person dying is not news, but if the stock markets drop ten points it is a tragedy! Thus people are disposed of, as if they were trash.

- Pope Francis

topic: Cities, Justice, People, Economic Justice, Homeless People

Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don't cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears - you know, it's a horrible thing.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: People, Tears, World, Homeless People

These days many politicians are demanding change. Just like homeless people.

- George Carlin

topic: Humorous, People, Homeless, Homeless People

Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless.

- Dustin Hoffman

source: "What I've Learned: Dustin Hoffman" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 16, 2007.

topic: People, Looks, Poverty, Dostoyevsky, Homeless People

People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.

- Sheila McKechnie

topic: Home, People, Homeless, Homelessness, Homeless People

Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

- Heather O'Neill

topic: Stars, Children, Fall, Tragic Hero, Homeless People

For me, I grew up in a house doing charity work for homeless people, and my parents had a lot of homeless friends. We were always taught to not discriminate and not judge.

- Shenae Grimes

topic: Judging, People, House, Charity Work, Homeless People

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

topic: Football, Golf, People, Housing, Homeless People

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

topic: Bridges, People, Sound, Homeless People

People feel that building a rocket for Mars is an exciting project, but if you see the refugees around the world and the millions of homeless people, then for me it's insulting that people are fantasizing about leaving planet Earth and going wherever.

- Pedro Reyes

topic: People, Leaving, Insulting, Homeless People

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

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

topic: War, People, May, Foreclosure, Layoff

Then a homeless man with a dog approached us and put his hand out. This happens to be something that I have a real problem with: homeless people with pets who approach you for food when they have a perfectly delicious dog standing right there?

- Chelsea Handler

source: Chelsea Handler (2012). “Are you there Vodka? It's me, Chelsea”, p.239, Random House

topic: Dog, Real, Men, Homeless People

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

- Tony Abbott

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

topic: People, Choices, Homeless, Homeless People

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

- Philip Emeagwali

topic: Adversity, People, Stronger, Homeless People

When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not seek to avenge their deaths. Black, Hispanic, or poor families who have a loved one murdered not only don't expect the district attorney's office to pursue the death penalty -which, of course, is both costly and time consuming- but are surprised when the case is prosecuted at all.

- Helen Prejean

topic: Color, Cities, Office, Poor Family, Time Consuming

Homeless people bear God's image too.

- Philip Yancey

source: Philip Yancey, Eugene H. Paterson (2001). “Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage”, p.82, Zondervan

topic: People, Bears, Homeless, Homeless People

Homeless people's dogs are more knowledgeable than dogs in Beverly Hills. Why? Because they explore, they move forward, they go through the ups and downs in life. A dog in a wealthy environment, there is no downs except what he lives.

- Cesar Millan

source: Interview with David Morris, www.askmen.com. February 27, 2015.

topic: Dog, Moving, People, Homeless People

Watching snowing would be much greater if there were no homeless people! Man can never be fully happy and comfortable till all men become happy and comfortable!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Men, People, Snow, Homeless People

I think that one of the visions that is closest to reality is the cardboard city in the subway station in Tokyo, which is based very closely on a series of documentary photographs of people living like that and of the contents of the boxes. Those are quite haunting because Tokyo homeless people reiterate the whole nature of living in Tokyo in these cardboard boxes, they're only slightly smaller than Tokyo apartments, and they have almost as many consumer goods. It's a nightmare of boxes within boxes.

- William Gibson

source: Source: craphound.com

topic: Reality, Thinking, Cities, Homeless People, Cardboard Boxes

I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.

- Paul Bettany

source: Source: collider.com

topic: People, Giving, Judging, Cathartic, Homeless People

I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people.

- Lisa Yuskavage

topic: New York, People, Library, Homeless People

Older homeless people are more likely to be women, because they don't have pensions and they are caretakers, so they withdraw from the workforce and end up having no pension if their husband leaves them, so the whole thing is just a nightmare.

- Patricia Arquette

source: "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Husband, People, Nightmare, Caretakers, Homeless People

The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas are being hollowed out. Just look at Times Square in New York. No more sex shops, no drugs, no homeless people. The area is clinically clean and incredibly dull.

- Rem Koolhaas

topic: New York, Sex, Squares, Suburbs, Orderliness

Half of NYC's homeless populations are families.Homeless people have been ignored for too long. I'll just say this: If you are a family on the brink of eviction you are 80% less likely to get evicted if you have legal counsel. However, there is no right to legal counsel in housing court.It would cost the city $12,500 to grant that family legal counsel. Meanwhile, the average stay for a homeless family in a shelter once they have been evicted cost the city $45,000. So not only does it seem like the right thing to do morally, it's also the right thing to do fiscally.

- Paul Bettany

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Eviction, Nyc, Homeless People

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

topic: Cute, Children, Kids, Homeless People

My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building.

- Denis Leary

source: "Now on DVD: Denis Leary's documentary 'Burn' shows unique dangers Detroit firefighters face" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. July 09, 2013.

topic: Cousin, Couple, Fire, Old Neighborhood, Warehouse

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

- Pras Michel

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Homeless, Seven, Paychecks, Homelessness, Homeless People

And we'd had this stupid scene on the street, and even that was kind of cool, because sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive.

- Nick Hornby

topic: Real, Stupid, Hard Times, Pedals, Potato Chips

The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it's too late to save her. "I've noticed that when you light a match, the flame is the same shape as a falling tear." She's been sensitized, turned gooey in the middle. I saw it happening and I didn't do anything to stop it. From now on, she'll be writing diaries and sometimes including little poems and she'll buy gifts for her favourite teachers and she'll admire the scenery and she'll watch the news and she'll buy soup for homeless people and she'll never burn my leg hair again.

- Joe Dunthorne

topic: Teacher, Fall, Writing, Homeless People

Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.

- Mohsin Hamid

topic: Suicide, Memories, Addiction, Squabbles, Lottery Ticket

I often pay homeless people to come round and clean my car.

- Tara Palmer-Tomkinson

topic: Funny, Car, People, Homeless People

Well, I've thought about donating, but they get so many damn donations already. I read about one foundation that raised over 100 million dollars. Well where the hell did that go? For all I know every starving child has a 2 story house by now. Or maybe they're all raging alcoholics, like homeless people. Homeless people who are more effective when it comes to raising money. Who wants to support alcoholic children? Not me.

- Zach Braff

topic: Children, People, House, Raising Money, Homeless People

Well it's not that I HATE them, but honestly if I saw two homeless people begging for money, one white and one black, and I only had one quarter... Well I'd probably keep it actually.

- Zach Braff

topic: Hate, Two, White, Homeless People

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

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

topic: New York, Good Friend, Thinking, Homeless People

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

topic: Talking, People, Downtown, Homeless People

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Jobs, Real, Believe, Homeless People

I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

- Hamish Linklater

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: New York, People, Giving, Homeless People

An agent friend of mine who will remain nameless said you can't make a romance about homeless people; nobody wants to see them kiss. And I thought, what a repulsive, repugnant, extraordinary thing to say. I had to think about the fact that the world is probably full of other people who feel like that. The very idea that we spend time trying to humanize humans is extraordinary to me.

- Paul Bettany

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Homeless People

Life is precious, so I ought to spend my days, you know, making sandwiches for homeless people and tending to the elderly in hospice care. Life is precious, so I should give everything away, except that I live in the world. And in the world, I actually have needs and wants, and I value my needs and wants. And I live in the world, and I can't just go make sandwiches every day because I also have to take kids to school. I also have to, you know, write books because that's my livelihood.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Book, School, Kids, Life Is Precious, Homeless People

When homeless people go camping, how do they know?

- Dana Gould

source: FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jun 11, 2013

topic: People, Camping, Homeless, Homeless People

I always give homeless people money, and my friends yell at me, 'He's only going to buy more alcohol and cigarettes.' And I'm thinking, 'Oh, like I wasn't?'

- Kathleen Madigan

topic: Thinking, People, Giving, Homeless People

My daughter, dad where do homeless people come from? My answer, everywhere.

- Ray Price

topic: Daughter, Dad, People, Homeless People

Housing is where it all begins. Where you live determines everything from where you shop for food, to how safe your neighborhood is, to your kids' school, to whether you're exposed to toxic chemicals on a daily basis. And as a New Yorker, I found it impossible not to notice and be bothered by the huge number of homeless people in the city, as well as by the segregation and gentrification that's all around you.

- Solly Granatstein

topic: School, People, Impossible, Homeless People