Quotes About Homelessness

Importantly, I still give money to homeless people - and all other charities.

If we truly intend to make America great, we will strive to be a nation that has eliminated poverty, homelessness, and diseases of despair, where hard work is rewarded with a living wage, and where those who are too old or too infirm to work are protected by a safety net that guarantees no American will be destitute. That's not a utopian vision or some foreign construct.

I live near Thompson Square Park, and there are a lot of colorful people I see in the park - a lot of different personalities and homeless people - you get to know them. And every now and then, there is suddenly someone who is no longer around, and you're just like, 'Wow,' but you never really know what happened to them.

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.

Under the most diverse conditions and disparate circumstances, we watch the development of the same phenomena—homelessness on an unprecedented scale, rootlessness to an unprecedented depth.

We're so lucky where we live, but we're so out of touch. Everyone's mindset is made to feel that refugees are a problem, but it's more than that. They're human beings, too. They were forced from their homes.

I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.

When I was around 18, I got kicked out of my parents' house, and I wasn't allowed to take anything with me. I slept on YMCA towels for a whole semester in university before my father found out and bought me a mattress. I felt really free because I was finally living on my own, but I was also really depressed because I had nothing.

With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.

How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

I'm poor, not homeless.

I too have known the inward disturbance of exile, The great peril of being at home nowhere, The dispersed center, the dividing love; Not here, nor there, leaping across ocean, Turning, returning to each strong allegiance; American, but with this difference - parting.

Concern for the collective good of our nation, city, or neighbour rooted in the values of love makes us all seek to nurture and protect that good. If all public policy was created in the spirit of love, we would not have to worry about unemployment, homelessness, schools failing to teach children, or addiction.

A lot of people's circumstances can change very, very quickly, and people can move jobs, relationships can break down, something else could happen, and the next thing you know, you can't pay your rent, you can't get the support you require, and you're out on the street.

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.

You have to let folks know that it's not OK... to live on a sidewalk in front of somebody's house or in front of somebody's business if we have provided a safe, clean, sanitary place for you to go.

As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there.

Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent.

I might be living in a cardboard box under a freeway overpass, homeless, but I won't be silenced.

For many of them, turning eighteen meant aging out of the foster-care system. They could find themselves with nowhere to live and no support system.

I have been at the bedsides of the dying, who looked puzzled at their family's grief as they left a world in which they had never felt at home.

Für einen Erwachsenen ist das Fehlen von Zeit offensichtlich eine Art Heimatlosigkeit.

Inzwischen glaubte Linda, dass das menschliche Schicksal nicht an Gott, sondern am Grundbesitz hing. Transzendentale Obdachlosigkeit war keine Folge des Religionsverlusts, sondern der Inflation von Mietwohnungen. Sie war stolz darauf, mit ihrer großen, heruntergekommenen Villa ein Bollwerk gegen den Zeitgeist zu errichten.

desde 1948 miles de palestinos han tenido que abandonar sus hogares, se han visto despojados de sus casas, de sus tierras. Nuestra labor es evaluar la política de asentamientos que todavía está produciendo más desplazados. Donde nos encontramos ahora, aquí en esta colina