Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Nighy

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

Will Eisner

The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Dick Thompson

We still urge the elderly and other high-risk groups to be vaccinated.

Andrew O'Hagan

I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say, in an office full of elderly people who looked after blind ex-servicemen.

Nick Park

In many ways, I thought of them as an elderly couple, ... They're inseparable, they live in each other's pockets. There's a kind of love-hate relationship, but they'll always look out for each other at the end of the day.

Nick Park

In many ways, I thought of them as an elderly couple,

In Moss Point, there were people who had insurance and money to fix themselves up. I'm not there for them. I'm there to help the elderly and handicapped who did not have insurance or the means to repair their homes.

Oh mother of a mighty race,Yet lovely in thy youthful grace!The elder dames, thy haughty peers,Admire and hate thy blooming years.

Cameron Diaz

They are our storytellers - our elderly are meant to be those who share the secrets of wisdom and knowledge and life with our youth,

The trees in the middle grow majestic because of it. How important it is that we all get together and help those nameless faces to grow ? the elderly and homeless and the needy ?

Anthony Shadid

I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power of their story.

Loretta Young

I know elderly people who have so lived in their long lives. Today, they find great pleasure in each and every day.

In this case, we had elderly people. There wasn't much they could do except hide in there.

Ilion could use a grocery store because people could use some things and they've got to truck all the way to Herkimer to get it. So it would be nice to have something in Ilion so that the elderly people would have a place to go.

Florida's elderly aren't cuddly. The men were a little nicer.

We didn't know anything about this population anymore. We didn't know who was there. We didn't know if it was an elderly population or a sick population. We didn't know if they had any education.

We saw so many people in great need. One person had liver cancer, and one elderly person walked with a cane.

We feel strongly that Regis has been a great neighbor for a very long time. The idea is great; the town needs more elderly housing. We are in favor of that. It's just the scope of this project we can't accept.

Kathleen Blanco

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.

Judi Dench

Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.

Sharon Cooper

Targeting elderly people is unacceptable and this is being looked into.

It's a neighbor helping neighbor program and it is a wonderful thing. It's for the elderly who want to stay in their homes. I know I will want to and I hope North Haven residents will support it.

Joseph Stiglitz

Elderly people remember when they could go to the movie for a nickel or a quarter,

Gore Vidal

It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill.

Herman Melville

Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!

George Saunders

A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker. "Grammy's here!" he shouts. He puts some MacAttack Mac&Cheese in the microwave and dons headphones and takes out a video game so he won't be bored during the forty seconds it takes his lunch to cook. A truck comes around the corner and hits Grammy, sending her flying over the roof into the backyard, where luckily she lands on a trampoline. Unluckily, she bounces back over the roof, into the front yard, landing on a rosebush.

Jasper Fforde

She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe.

Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.

George Bernard Shaw

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.

Chris Lilley

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.'

I wanted to be involved with the elderly and be involved in their lives. I'm missing out on that with my own parents who live in Florida.

A lot of them were really stuck in their ways and felt there was no reason to leave. I think of everybody I talked to, nobody left. I persuaded a lot of people to go to the Superdome. Of course, you worry about the people, especially the elderly people. My prayers are with them.

They have all been elderly people who had serious underlying diseases.