Quotes About Homeless

The first time I came to New York - and the first time I saw the movie 'Paris Is Burning' - I learned about the homeless LGBT culture in New York City that goes back to the '80s. I found that very interesting, and it's definitely something that I care about.

When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

Treadwell's stocks plenty of second-hand books, which Virginia Woolf called 'Wild Books, Homeless Books', because, explains Christina, 'they have already had a journey, so they have extra energy in them from where they have been before, and they're looking for a home'.

When my son was 3 years old - I'll never forget this - there was this homeless guy walking toward us, and my son looked at me, and he said, 'Who's your buddy?'

Facing the only gas-lamp yawned the cavern of a second-hand furniture dealer, where, deep in the gloom of a sort of narrow avenue winding through a bizarre forest of wardrobes, with an undergrowth tangle of table legs, a tall pier-glass glimmered like a pool of water in a wood. An unhappy, homeless couch, accompanied by two unrelated chairs, stood in the open.

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

Winter unwraps a parcel of stones For old and sick and sad, and homeless walkers

Mr. Gunt, Mr. Neal here is a street survivor. We at the airline are honoring the homeless this year, and it was our airline's privilege and delight to offer him the one remaining business-class seat as a token of our faith in the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. With the full authority of the EU air-system code behind me, I order you back to 67E.

The Mole People, by Jennifer Toth (Chicago Review Press, 1993).

Adopted pets are the best pets you can have. Most adoptable pets come from loving homes that simply cannot care for them anymore. Or, they are strays who've been on their own without the loving care they deserve.

He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.

I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I was left without a home.

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

Her subway card was given to a homeless woman who had thanked her, then screeched that she was a fucking whore.

Helen didn't hold back. "I told your father that Paul was like a hermit crab. They're scavengers. They don't have the ability to make their own shells, so they cast around until they find abandoned shells, and then they move in.

Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful horses in the parade and a man without a silver saddle is a vagrant.

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

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

London is like the grave in one respect -- any man can make himself at home there; and whenever a man finds himself homeless elsewhere, he had better either die or go to London.

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

I started my own foundation. If you aren't familiar with it, it's called 'Febreezing the homeless.' Who would you rather give money to: a man that smells 4like liquiid garbage, or ocean breeze?

What's a soup kitchen?

I have donated money to the kids overseas, the open hand project and the homeless.

I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose.