#homeless

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable. ↗

— Ben Okri

#friends #happy #homeless #i #lived

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home. ↗

— Ben Okri

#find #home #homeless #i #say

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#attention #convinced #downturn #economic #enough

There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are mentally ill. To be able to talk to each of those people is something that I've had to learn how to do over the years. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#also #congregation #congressmen #each #federal

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again. ↗

— Elie Tahari

#failure #had #homeless #i #means

The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#accommodation #any #go #having #homelessness

It's better to have nothing,' the children were saying. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#homelessness #poetic-fiction #beauty

First dates are like homeless vagrants: despite all efforts to avoid them, they’re always at McDonalds and you end up without any spare change. ↗

— Bauvard

#first-dates #funny #homelessness #love #change

If all the Christians- I mean all of 'em- got outta the pews on Sundays and into the streets, we'd shut the city down. We'd shut down hunger. We'd shut down loneliness. We'd shut down the notion that there is any such of a thing as a person that don't deserve a kind word and a second chance. ↗

— Ron Hall

#christian #homeless #hunger #change

The Search for Truth is a homeless vagrant who begs for food and gathers enough spare change for malt liquor. ↗

— Bauvard

#homelessness #humor #truth #change