Quotes About Homeless

The man rolls over onto his back, face-to-face with the morning sky. The messages swarm him. Even here, homeless, he thinks: Nothing will be the same. The spruces answer: Nothing has ever been the same. We're all doomed, the man thinks. We have always all been doomed. But things are different this time. Yes. You're here.

A flick of a switch reveals a space half homeless-person's midden, half pharaonic tomb. Talismans everywhere: totems, drawings, and cargo cult, laid out on plywood planks spread across sawhorses.

They sped by a pack of sea lions lounging on the docks, and she swore she saw an old homeless guy sitting among them. From across the water the old man pointed a bony finger at Percy and mouthed something like 'Don't even think about it.' Did you see that? Hazel asked. Percy's face was red in the sunset. Yeah. I've been here before. I...I don't know. I think I was looking for my girlfriend. Annabeth, Frank said. You mean, on your way to Camp Jupiter? Percy frowned. No. Before that.

Which of these tasty morsels do you think is the special bait?' Sam pointed at the bull's head. 'Go big or go home?' 'She said to the homeless kid.

We both have no home to go back to... so we can go anywhere at all.

In the end, like any stray, I was conquered by the promise of continued food and shelter. Trust would take longer.

He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.

William Shakespeare

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

and we're in Victorian London. Meet the characters in the story… Elsie is a homeless orphan, who lives on the streets of London.

I can sleep anywhere. Planes. Trains. Sofa. Lawn chairs. Call it the upside to my life as an army brat. Never having a home means, I guess, that everywhere is your home. There is absolutely no place I'm anxious to return to. But this is different. I'm not trying to fall asleep in someplace new; I'm trying to fall asleep in someplace that's old.

I teach a Bible study for homeless guys in downtown Atlanta every week. Been doing it for years. That's the guys I'd rather go talk to. I'd rather take my act outside the church.

He asked with the eyes more than the lips for a shelter for the night

A sadness came over me. Returning to Kabul was like running into an old, forgotten friend and seeing that life hadn't been good to him, that he'd become homeless and destitute.

A sadness came over me. Returning to Kabul was like running into an old, forgotten friend and seeing that life hadn't been good to him, that he'd become homeless and destitute.

Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer.

When we feel haunted, it is the pull of our old home we're experiencing, but a more upsetting possibility is that the past has become homeless, and we are offering it a place to inhabit in the present.

Ah, grief, I should not treat you like a homeless dog who comes in the back door for a crust, for a meatless bone. I should trust you. I should coax you into the house and give you your own corner, a worn mat to lie on, your own water dish. You think I don't know you've been living under my porch. You long for a real place to be readied before winter comes. You need the right to warn off intruders, to consider my house your own and me your person and yourself my own dog.

For Jesus, who lived so lightly on this earth, He didn't even have a place to lay His head. I want so deeply to be like You.

Hanya orang-orang tak berumah, yang memang sudah tidak punya apa-apa dan karenanya tidak mungkin kehilangan apa-apa, yang ingin melihat tembak-menembak dimulai

Anger at injustice is a hallmark of the prophets. We have the responsibility to speak the truth. If we don't witness to the crudeness and brutality of our society, which disregards the homeless, poor, hungry, and dispossessed, who will?

I would like to clarify that the only adoption I am involved is through the Blue Cross Animal Welfare Shelter where we provide healthy and friendly homeless animals for adoption.

I just feel like I influence people because I'm like - I was practically homeless.

A lot of communities pretend they don't have homeless and just ignore them or try to make them go away.