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Quotes About Transients

Tourists and transients lived in hotels and motels along the waterfront. Behind them a belt of slums lay ten blocks deep, where the darker half of the population lived and died. On the other side of the tracks - the tracks were there - the business section wore its old Spanish facades like icing on a stale cake.
~ Ross MacDonald
the tensions between settled peoples and transients everywhere...
~ Stephan Talty
waters off Vancouver Island are home to Chinook and coho salmon, rockfish, lingcod, and the giant halibut—the major carnivore fish of the Pacific Northwest. Now, a new species of carnivore has made this oceanic waterway its home. The orca are transients, the resident killer whales having mysteriously vacated the area weeks earlier. There are six whales in the pod: two mature females, two calves
~ Steve Alten
Hollywood's full of transients. Everybody comes from somewhere else.
~ Poppy Montgomery
Millions of Republican fliers openly jeered at the poor, accusing FDR of providing "Free lunch to Hoboes, Relief Clients, Underprivileged Transients, and others who won't work.
~ James MacGregor Burns
Their neighbors in Penn Villas are strangers, transients – accountants, salesmen, supervisors, adjusters – people whose lives to them are passing can and the shouts of unseen children.
~ John Updike