“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
Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on… — Jackie Speier Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“I mean, they say they've gotta change the street kids' lives. Well, that's true. But you can't take somebody from point A… — Jim Goldberg Copy Share Image
The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing. — Sherrod Brown Copy Share Image
“He brings the cigarette butt to his mouth and lights up. He breathes in, and coughs; a rattling helicopter with a broken… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
“Homelessness is illegal. In my city no one is homeless although there are an increasing number of criminals living on the street.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Happiness lives in every corner of your home and if you are homeless, it lives under the leaves of trees, hiding beneath… — Munia Khan 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
People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes. — Sheila McKechnie Copy Share Image
Even in the depths of sleep, in which he had to satisfy his need for protection and love by curling himself up… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
“His smile is a stranger resting on a haunted face, only coming out for poisons turning him into a ghost.” — Craig Stone 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
We think about the enormous costs of homelessness, or the enormous cost of HIV/AIDS, over the long term, as people visit emergency… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Most families are destroyed from the inside, because they allow themselves to be conquered by others from the outside.” — Carlton Young Copy Share Image
“The bell of Limehouse Church rang as each of them, in this house, drifted into sleep - suddenly once more like children… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“She tried to remember all the times she had spoken to him. She replayed every moment she could remember at the beach… — Mahita Vas Copy Share Image
“Like the dung beetle, I had my comfortable burrow and my ball of sustenance, and like the dung beetle I was happy.” — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
“The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old, but more importantly, trodden upon.” — Martin Hopkins Copy Share Image
I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
“The atmosphere inside was terrible. Brenda stared into the distance whenever I was around her and hardly spoke to me. Little Jim… — Tracie Daily Copy Share Image
