To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Just as I had people who looked out for me when I had nowhere to live, there are others out there who… — Jessica Marie Baumgartner Copy Share Image
“Quit looking for an answer, Jim. There fuckin' ain't one. Fuck yeah, I'm still looking for God's telephone number.” — Jim Goldberg Copy Share Image
After struggling with homelessness like other areas across the state, we bucked the status quo to make San Diego the only big… — Kevin Faulconer Copy Share Image
“If anyone was ever justified in being depressed, he decided, it was most of the people in the room.” — Taylor Grant Copy Share Image
“I don't know what's worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
The voters have been very clear that we need to address the homelessness and housing crisis that is affecting our City, and… — London Breed Copy Share Image
Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day; you are down the next day. A lot of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Every rough sleeper is the product of political decisions that have created a safety net riddled with gaping holes. No one wants… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
“You'd think the homeless would despise the rest of us, but it seems the thing they want to do most is talk.… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home. There are so many young people who are homeless. They… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
For 30 years I have used my platform in provocative ways to encourage a healthy dialogue about important issues, including HIV/AIDS, war,… — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody's had the confidence that we'd ever be able to make a dent in homelessness. We've just come to… — John Carlos Frey Copy Share Image
“You know, the big thing that sets the homeless apart is that they usually only commit crimes out of desperation,” C continued.… — Richard LeMieux Copy Share Image
“If you walk five blocks north from the wholefoods in Berkeley along Telegraph Avenue and then turn right at Dwight way, you'll… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
“Nowhere do you see a real, integrated, full-blooded man or woman who shines like a beacon in this sea of disjointedness.” — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
“Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
In a normal family, surprise means presents, cake and a party. My family, surprise means homelessness, abandonment and destruction of private property.… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
When passerby's ignore homeless people, they don't know if that was a man or woman in uniform previously. They should not be… — Max Martini Copy Share Image
Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
We should make more people homeless than they might appreciate life more instead of taking it for granted. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or… — Jordan Flaherty Copy Share Image
If we truly want to end youth homelessness... then we have to invest in prevention and support communities as they work to… — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It's a peculiar response that people have. — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
“Los Angeles, this anthill, this slag heap, the city where I suffered and grappled with life and was defeated, and where I… — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
Homeless people living in a poor country - by acceptable means, is common almost unavoidable. Homeless people living in a rich one,… — Alexander Fennis Copy Share Image
I think, for me, the biggest issue is poverty in general, poverty in this time of plenty. It's reflected in homelessness. It's… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to… — Henry Cisneros Copy Share Image
It should be obvious that banning begging or criminalising rough sleeping will do little to combat homelessness. — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
It can be refugees, it can be a pregnant mother, it can be a 15-year-old... homelessness can happen to everybody. — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it's just a disaster for everyone. — Teri Hatcher Copy Share Image
Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable. — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“My own theory is that the spectacle of the homeless may be necessary to keep the rest of us on the straight… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“Home is where you feel more welcome, more secure, have more rights, where you are loved. This place can be any place… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“It’s been my experience in life that if you step back and simply allow events to take their course, things will usually… — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
“We are homeless enough in this world under the best of circumstances without going to any special effort to test our capacity… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
If people are expecting the mayor of Portland to solve the problem of homelessness they're going to be sorely disappointed and that's… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
