Elderly Quotes
Elderly Quote of the day
What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.
If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.
After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.
Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.
The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.
Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.
Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker ... the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this.
Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.
The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality of a nation.
Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.
Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.
A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and hope.
The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.
If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.
People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.
A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.
Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.
Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.
In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly
I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.
Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.
A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.
I never leave a dog alone in a car on a hot day. I make sure it's with an elderly person holding a baby.
Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.
How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.
Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.
And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.
The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
