homeless quotes

He looks like a homeless man in a thousand dollar suit.

-Anonymous
  On Senator Edward M Kennedy's campaign for re-election at age 62. In the Washington Post,1 Oct.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

-Lazarus, Emma
  'The New Colossus', inscribed at the foot of the Statue of Liberty, NewYork harbour,1886.

   Show me a man who cares no more for one place than another, and I will show you in that same person one who loves nothing but himself. Beware of those who are homeless by choice.

-Southey, Robert
  The Doctor, ch.34.

»7,000 a week would be fine for the homeless. But not for me.

-Van Hooijdonk, Pierre
  Rejecting a new wage deal at Celtic Football Club. Quoted in the Observer, 6 Jun 2004.

The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent and uncertain† But there can be no doubt as to the elements in the record that have evoked the best in human nature. The Mother, the Child and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self- forgetful, with his message of peace, love and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

-Whitehead, Alfred North
 Adventures of Ideas.

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