Elderly Quotes
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Elderly Quotes & Sayings
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Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.
— Robert K. Greenleaf
Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!
— Herman Melville
My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.
— Elizabeth Strout
Embrace the glory of age.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Who has declared that murder is more newsworthy than the heartwarming story of an elderly woman who delivers Meals-on-Wheels to local AIDS sufferers?
— Kristin Hannah
I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover.
— Rosamunde Pilcher
We are never old with the strength of the spirit, although the body may fail.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
— William Manchester
It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Where is the true religion? It is where women, men, youth, children, elderly, the illiterate and the educated are all attracted.
— Dada Bhagwan
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.
— George Bernard Shaw
The elderly are useless eaters.
— Henry A. Kissinger
It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.
— Pope Francis
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The glory of age is beauty of gray hair.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Blessed are the elderly men and women.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The elderly become invisible sooner than we would hope.
— Nadia Hashimi
Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.
— Herbert Gold
As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.
— Albert Einstein
The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.
— Mason Cooley
A salaam aleikum. The elderly Irishwoman has a foamy cloud of white hair and a zigzag cashmere poncho. You wouldn't cross her.
— David Mitchell
The dream is possible at any age. Go live your dream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.
— Lillian Gordy Carter
Gray hair is a crown of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance
— Pope Francis
Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.
— Wilfred Owen
In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.
— Ginny Brown-Waite
There are many rules for the elderly in the Highway Code. I have one too, and here it is: get a bloody move on.
— Jeremy Clarkson
An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness ... played the calm and virtuous old men.
— Charles Dickens
At the toughest times I recalled how the children and the elderly looked at me with trustful eyes. Your faith has given me strength.
— Viktor Yushchenko
I'm on the Internet. I stay informed. They let old people on the Internet, you know.
— Stephen Emond
The old think the young are lazy and entitled. The young think the old are incompetent and inefficient.
— Joanie Connell
Embrace the beauty of existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.
— Edmund Wilson
I like wearing gloves made of cheese (Swiss), and then going around asking elderly men if they want a knuckle sandwich.
— Jarod Kintz
Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.
— Paul Krugman
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.
— Arthur Smith
"What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home."
— Chauncey Depew
I swear by the self-assurance with which elderly men sitting in public tilt sideways to allow the gas to escape loudly.
— Pawan Mishra
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
— Bertrand Russell
A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.
— Pope Francis
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.
— Dane Cook
Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity.
— L.M. Montgomery
May you live to be as old as 120 years old.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To a man and woman, all of her elderly patients had been surprised to be old - which Avery privately regarded as a serious failure to pay attention.
— Lionel Shriver
The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly.
— Juan Williams
The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal.
— William Levada
The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
Gray hair is a glory of a splendor.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.
— Ramsey Clark
The fact that social media has leveled the playing field doesn't offer you the right to disrespect the elderly
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Us elderly are the modern lepers.
— David Mitchell
I am a member of the 'sandwich' generation, that group that must simultaneously care for elderly parents and support children.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
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.
— Bernie Sanders
An elderly camper realizes, with heart-skipping dismay, that during his afternoon bowel movement, he is unwittingly shitting on a zombie.
— Robert Kirkman
In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly
— Pope Francis
Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?
— Joyce Rachelle
A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.
— Donnie Wahlberg
President Trump is doing a great job of demonstrating how mean the rich can be to the poor, sick and elderly.
— Steven Magee
Fate, the monstrous scene-shifter, was setting the stage for the death of Uncle Fred, the elderly man.
— George Bellairs
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.
— Cloris Leachman
Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
— Geddy Lee
A poem begins as a lump in the throat? Gamache asked Ruth. The elderly woman held his eyes
— Louise Penny
To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years.
— Donald Laird
Blessed are you when you enjoyed the company of elderly people. They are always ready to share their rich experience and wisdom with young people.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
the loud voice young people who feared the elderly used.
— Angela Flournoy
We can all make the world a better place through the moment-to-moment decisions we make as we interact with people.
— Morton Shaevitz
One corner was filled by an elderly flat-top desk; the papers on it were neatly in order. Near it, on its own stand, was a small electric calculator.
— Robert A. Heinlein
In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.
— Louise Penny