Elderly Quotes

"What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home."

Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.

Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.

The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.

I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.

I don't see any elderly people in the crowd. Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent away when they can't jump off moving trains anymore?

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.

An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.

Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.

Everybody welcome-especially elders who smoke.

Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

It's one of the best programs I've ever seen because it benefits both sides: children, who need love, and grandparents, elderly people, who need to feel wanted.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.

It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often the last we think about.

As a matter of fact, one of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, every five years you must have end-of-life counseling. Translation: suicide counseling.

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.

What the hell do doctors know about exercise? Most of them know zero. You gotta push elderly people to failure like anybody else. Then the body responds.

There are many rules for the elderly in the Highway Code. I have one too, and here it is: get a bloody move on.

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.

He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.

No elderly person should be like an “exile” in our families. The elderly are a treasure for our society.

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.

Yes, older drivers are more likely to injure themselves and others when they get behind the wheel. But if you take that away, that is really the last lifeline a lot of elderly people have.

At the toughest times I recalled how the children and the elderly looked at me with trustful eyes. Your faith has given me strength.

In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.

Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject.

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies.

We're all born, and if you're going to live to be elderly, you'll have gone through a life journey different than anyone else's. It's unique to you, but you'll have some common themes.

The Europeans have lots of data on the use of adjuvanted flu vaccine in the elderly, but I dont think anybody has really good data on adjuvants in children.

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who said I had given up on America and I was just waiting to die.

I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, "No, it's for me."

Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!

To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years.

My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.