LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin. — Mallory Ortberg 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
Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it.… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Not everyone who's homeless is a drug-addict or in need of mental health care. Some are normal people who've been knocked down,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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
Finding gainful employment to pay for housing is hard for any veteran experiencing homelessness. It's even more difficult for veterans who've also… — Chris Gardner 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
“TRACY MARANDER: [Kurt Cobain] was a really good artist. He would draw cartoons with funny sayings. I have this huge picture of… — Greg Prato Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try… — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
Mainly, I have actually been getting involved with an organization called MALDEF. It's a Latino organization. And I would like to get… — Edy Ganem Copy Share Image
Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In rural areas of America, there is a growing increase in poverty, homelessness and hunger. You cannot separate these factors from domestic… — Blanche Lincoln Copy Share Image
Homelessness can be complex, and some rough sleepers will refuse help when living on the street becomes entrenched. But fining people, confiscating… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
“To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're… — Valerie Owens Copy Share Image
The homeless often lose trust in people: in the hospital doctors, who had no choice but to discharge them back on to… — Ed Davey 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
“I’m back at Lafayette Park after a trip to the Bodhi Tree Bookstore, not to look at the books but to rub… — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
Homelessness is like public education - something that for far too long we haven't put the resources or love or attention to. — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys… — Jewel Copy Share Image
The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important… — Brian Moynihan Copy Share Image
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
If I cannot address the issue of visible homelessness and abject poverty on the streets of this community, I will not get… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
Anyone can become homeless, and thousands of people grow up in homes that just aren't good enough. Working with them reminds me… — George Clarke 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
“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
“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
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
“You need to stop making excuses for your mistakes, as long as you are complaining about what you did wrong you will… — Carlton Young Copy Share Image
It's so bad being homeless in winter. They should go somewhere warm like the Caribbean where they can eat fresh fish all… — Lady Victoria Hervey Copy Share Image
We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness. — Millard Fuller Copy Share Image
I had never even heard of the term 'hidden homeless' before... It's not just Orlando and Kissimmee. It's a national issue; it's… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
Nothing is wrong with me, Dan. Whats wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on… — Martin Hopkins Copy Share Image
Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are… — Jewel Copy Share Image
Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Compassion goes out looking for suffering, scouring the earth for poverty and misery and pain, the same way the cops look for… — Donald O'Donovan 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
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
“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