297 Quotes About Homelessness

Under the bridge, traffic above us and coats around us, hearts thudding with the steady perfection of this moment, I thought of every word I had never before dared to think about him.Future. Hope.And love, as the rain slowed to a misty trickle through the long and beautiful night.

Dear Pavement,The sun used to be the only thing to warm you, and now it’s body heat—a mingling recipe of human flesh and cockroach, of human flesh and rodent, of human flesh and tossed quarters. A cheek rests on you, a cheek capable of being kissed by a bishop, a cheek once held in a mother’s palm, a cheek that deserves more than the prickly pebbled pillow you are.

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

Home is where your mother lives. Home is where you can go back to. Home is a place where you can stay and no one dared ask you why you are there.

There are clear rules governing the relationship between the homeless and the average person on the street: speak to each other politely; don't look each other in the eye; don't ask for names; and don't give more than twenty dollars.

Sometimes it's easy to walk by because we know we can't change someone's whole life in a single afternoon. But what we fail to realize it that simple kindness can go a long way toward encouraging someone who is stuck in a desolate place.

Fear, by definition, is the feeling caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain or pose a threat.

If you want to honor God, get to know someone unlike you.

Stress and poverty are interdependent.