Famous Quotes & Sayings

You might want to mention that you don't want your crews to take money from elderly people in Sherwood Forest,

This is a time for people to come together, let go of differences, recognize their similarities, and share who they are and where they come from. It has been shared by tribal elders that in order for healing to begin, we must let go of resentments or harsh feelings.

Health departments, in particular, they're having to postpone their clinics and turn away elderly people who might want their shots. It's important that people recognize that if they need to get a shot in November or December, that's fine.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

He (Somoza, the elder in Nicaragua) may be an SOB but he's our SOB

He (the elderly man) put on a shirt and tie and coat.

Juan Williams

The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly.

Lillian Gordy Carter

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

Mark Levin

So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and assistance for the disabled - few dare ring the alarm of looming economic catastrophe that threatens to destabilize the civil society.

Helen Thomas

Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond which the elderly, the sick, the powerless do not starve or lack for medicine or shelter.

Jonathan Sacks

Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.

Mason Cooley

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

Michael Moore

Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.

Henry A. Kissinger

The elderly are useless eaters.

Nikolai Gogol

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

Satish Kumar

These are elderly people and the savings really means a lot to them. They are very happy and relieved that they can save money.

John Cusack

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

Paul Krugman

Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.

Maggie Kuhn

A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and hope.

Maggie Smith

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.

John Cheever

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.

The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

George Will

The elderly are being subsidized to an astonishing degree.

Holbrook Jackson

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

Umberto Eco

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

Pope Francis

Where the #‎ elderly are not honored, there is no future for the young.

Pope Francis

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.

Pope Francis

In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

Pope Francis

Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills. 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?

Pope Francis

It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.

Pope Francis

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

Mike Fitzpatrick

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.

Sarah Ferguson

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.