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Homeless Quotes

When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

Car Parents Mom Homeless Year Bad

In college, when I was kind of confronted with facts and figures about inequality in America, a big impulse I had was to go hang out with homeless people around my university and hear them out and understand their situation from their perspective.

Matthew Desmond

Perspective People College Homeless

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

Homeless Living Box Might Silenced

Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things.

Car Eyes Me Homeless Feel Talking

I respect everyone, from the homeless brother and sister on the street to the executive that sits in the highest office named President Barack Obama. I respect everyone - but we over-respect no one.

Respect Brother Sister Homeless

'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan.

Age Children Death People Homeless

Too many veterans are poor or near poor and homeless because of it.

Homeless Veterans Poor Because Many

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

Philip Emeagwali

People Homeless Prison Stronger Made

I'd been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The city seemed like California without the masks or pretense: a place where dreams were occasionally made but mostly torn apart.

Dreams Day City Homeless Problem

We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.

Homeless Problem Situation Come Just

Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren't spayed or neutered. I'm proud to support PETA's work to prevent animal homelessness.

Work Animal Support Parents Homeless

I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.

I Am Homeless World Never Germans

I was homeless for about 8 months, I refused to live with my dad or anyone for that matter. So I stayed somewhere that had no hot water, ever, no heat, I told myself I have to be strong and get through it on my own.

Live Water Myself Be Strong Homeless

They're not going to have a homeless person on a poster representing New York.

New York Homeless Person New Going

Homeless people really upset me when I was little. A lot of kids have this reaction, but I would get really worried or sad or concerned or cry.

Sad People Me Homeless Cry Upset

Decent wages keep people out of homeless shelters. Decent wages allow families to afford books and, I don't know, school fees and things like that.

School People Homeless Know Out

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.

Work Sad Homeless Singing Song You

The first thing that I ever made was a documentary that I shot... in downtown L.A. about a group of homeless people.

People Homeless Group First Downtown

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

People Homeless Influence Feel Just

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

Life Homeless Philosophy Ownership

I was homeless for almost a year and a half, just living in my car or bouncing around peoples' houses, going to 7-Eleven at the end of the day and asking them for the taquitos that they were going to throw out because I hadn't eaten in two days.

Car Day Homeless End Of The Day End

During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.

Angela Duckworth

Service Focus School Sister Homeless

If you ever go to Temple Square in Salt Lake City, if you stay there long enough, you'll see a homeless person standing in the middle of their nice, beautiful square, holding out a cup for change. And the Mormons don't ever ask him to leave.

Change Beautiful City Homeless You

Most people never really sat down and got to know a homeless person, but every homeless person is just a real person that was created by God and it is the same kind of different as us; they just have a different story.

God People Homeless Story Down Know

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