1. We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can’t solve.-Linda Lingle
2. We just can’t stop people from being homeless if that’s their choice.-Tony Abbott
3. The world of the homeless is a tough and interesting world.-Paul Dano
4. 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
5. People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.-Sheila McKechnie
6. We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America.-Jewel Kilcher
7. Homelessness is the actor’s fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.-Edwin Booth
8. Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.-Jewel
9. More and more people are facing homelessness and housing problems.-Adam Sampson
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10. Homelessness among seniors is a tragedy we never want to see happen. Fortunately, the city does not have a large population of seniors without permanent housing, and although we have seen a slight increase – less than one-half percent – they make up less than 3 percent of the city’s homeless population overall.-Angela Allen
11. Realistically, you aren’t going to be able to completely end homelessness. But we certainly can do a much better job that we’re doing right now.-Cliff Smith
12. Although homelessness can happen to anyone, it just wasn’t expected.-Linda Lewis
13. Our ultimate goal is to help people end their homelessness. The Street Needs Assessment is a new tool that we will use to help us achieve this goal.-Phil Brown
14. Homelessness is a problem that people don’t come in contact with on a daily basis. It tends to not get the publicity that a major disaster would get.-Phil Frame
15. Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.-Jerzy Kosinski
16. People think that homeless people are not human beings and that it’s OK to hurt them and, most importantly, they think they can get away with it.-Michael Stoops
17. Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.-Linda Lingle
18. A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.-Marcus Valerius Martial
19. Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America.-Jewel Kilcher
20. I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.-Will.I.Am
21. Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.-Jerzy Kosinski
22. Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.-Philip Emeagwali
23. I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.-Misha Collins
24. The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs – food, shelter, clothing.-Sherrod Brown
25. Homelessness is not just an isolated social evil. It is the catalyst and the breeding ground for other problems such as marriage difficulties and family breakup, stress, unemployment and alcoholism..-Eva Burrows
26. To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.-Vincent Van Gogh
27. Poverty is the mother of crime.-Marcus Aurelius
28. What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness.-Jewel Kilcher
29. It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.-Irish Proverb