Charles Dickens

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

English Novelist

Jeff Garcia

I really want to make this the last stop of my career. I don't want to be a vagabond, so to speak, and be traveling from team to team, year in and year out. I'm not that type of guy. I like to be settled.

American Athlete

Kevin Bacon

I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.

American Actor

Julian Sands

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

British Actor

Oliver Goldsmith

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Irish Poet

Sophie Thompson

I wonder what it was like to be an actor years ago. We're so respected now and I don't think it does us any good. We used to be vagabonds. I want to be a vagabond!

English Actress

Joel Kinnaman

As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of options, it's very hard to define yourself.

Swedish Actor

Mary Gauthier

I'm a traveler and a vagabond and an observer, and the songs come through that. And that's just the way it's going to be.

American Musician

Thor Heyerdahl

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

Norwegian Explorer

Helen Mirren

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

British Actress

Suggests a lack of regular work, often used to stress financial instability.

Jobless Implication

Can imply disapproval or pity, reflecting societal views on a stable home.

Possible Negativity

Sometimes romanticized in literature or film as a free-spirited lifestyle.

Romanticized Image

Highlights the temporary and often unplanned nature of a vagabond's stops.

Non-Permanent

Can imply a sense of adventure and unpredictability in life.

Adventure Connotation

Use it to create vivid imagery of a character in a story or a way of life.

Descriptive Imagery

 woman for killing her husband a crime she denied she shared this single cell with four other women I saw that many of the women at that prison were imprisoned alongside their babies and small children sumter being idle for being vagabonds or

Combating corruption in...

 hitchhikers, vagrants and tramps. In most of our minds, the vagabond is a creature from the past. The word "hobo" conjures up an old black and white image of a weathered old man covered in coal, legs dangling out of a boxcar,

Vagabond