Street Living Quotes

I've never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade.

A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander.

There are thousands on thousands in New York who have no assignable home.

No one wants to work for little money; otherwise, they would be living on the streets.

To be honest, busking was a massive part of becoming aware of homelessness. I used to run into a lot of 'Big Issue' sellers and a lot of people on the street. It really opened my eyes to the kind of life that they live and the options that are open for them - or not, actually.

The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I got a job I used to miss the curfew for the shelter. So I ended up sleeping outside in the streets.

Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.

One of my friends is Snake from Skid Row.

Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.

But where else should they sleep?

How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!

I realized eventually that when I ran out of places to stay and found myself on the D train and in Central Park, I was actually homeless.

It's hard being homeless at any age, but at 16 years old? I can't even imagine. When you're a homeless teen, how do you build a future or have any sort of life?

I don't have a home. I'm on the road, more or less.

I lived on the street myself.

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

I literally had a very articulate, though highly impaired, homeless man say to me, “Smokey! I love you! What’s happening with Jacob?” Here’s a guy living on the street, but he finds a way to watch Lost! And I’m looking at him, thinking, Your priorities are completely ass-backward!

There are no "points of light" for those who sleep on grates and park benches.

For many years, I didn't have a home.

It is ludicrous to suggest that we would ever do things that would end with people living on our streets.

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

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.