RON HENGGELER

November 23, 2023
Thanksgiving Day on the streets of San Francisco

On the streets of San Francisco
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
Charles Dickens

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. 

Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. 

Eminem

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. You're on the outskirts of society. 

Frank Dillane

People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It’s too much to deal with. 

Michael Zaslow

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Sholom Aleichem

Seven out of ten Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.

Pras Michel

Older homeless people are more likely to be women, because they don't have pensions and they are caretakers, so they withdraw from the workforce and end up having no pension if their husband leaves them, so the whole thing is just a nightmare. 

Patricia Arquette

Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone’s father or someone’s mother and they have a story. 

Syesha Mercado

Not everyone who’s homeless is a drug-addict or in need of mental health care. Some are normal people who’ve been knocked down, and it can happen to you too. Not all of us made bad life choices.  

Sherrilyn Kenyon

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him. 

Jack Kerouac

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home. 

Eric McCormack

When you drive in on a Sunday evening after a hot day in the country and catch that first glimpse of the white fog racing in shreds---as though torn from a giant Kleenex box! --- yes, flinging itself, Kleenix-like, through the cables of the world’s greatest if too narrow bridge, you know why you live here. 

 Herb Caen