Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cal Thomas

As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

Dick Thompson

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

Edmund Wilson

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

Bill Nighy

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

What about those who help growth indirectly, those who stay at home and look after others - mothers, carers of elderly parents or sick relatives who save the state millions of pounds annually. What is their worth? How is their value to be determined?

Arthur C. Clarke

Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved.

Deborah Smith

I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean language', which of course was catnip to me, especially as I'd recently discovered Lispector doing pretty much the same to Portuguese.

Michael Butler

She was to the point where she was having convulsions. They had elderly people not getting their (medicine). They had diabetics not getting their insulin. It was every man for himself.

Nancy Gibbs

You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.

Juan Vargas

You know who's going to get hurt? It's the elderly woman who has never had a claim, never done anything wrong, and her rates are going to go up by 10 percent, and that's not right.

Basically, all the forces that can enlarge the retired elderly population are in overdrive. The forces that would expand the younger (and working) population paying for Social Security and Medicare taxes are in reverse. The result is a kind of perfect demographic storm,

E. B. White

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.

David Wong

At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John to step behind the tape. John claims that here he told the guards that he could not speak English and when that failed to persuade them, he fa...ked a violent seizure. I am unclear as to the purpose of this part of his plan. John flung himself down and began rolling around in the snow, thrashing his limbs about and screaming “EL SEIZURE!!! NO ES BUENO!!!” in a Mexican accent.

He is popular, he has been around a long time, he is elderly and he is a gentleman. I think people will just wait until he has decided.

John Cole

I think we were lucky, because there were some big trees down on structures, including a mobile home where an elderly lady was inside.

If this really has a physiological role in normal elderly people then it's a huge deal.

Amy Bloom

My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments.

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.

David Bennett

Unexplained weight loss in the elderly usually triggers an investigation (by the person's physician).

Two-thirds of our patients are the elderly who are on Medicare and fixed incomes.

Bill Burr

I actually had the urge to elbow an elderly lady today...

George Carey

I see it as an elderly lady, who mutters away to herself in a corner, ignored most of the time.

People may have temporary lapses from the sleeping pills. They may have motor and coordination (problems). Sometimes, elderly patients may fall at night.

Kim Williams

I was helping the rest of the folks in the neighborhood to evacuate some of the elderly and the handicapped, and we got separated.

We have victims from around the country, as well as from outside the country. They (scam artists) promise the world, but can never deliver. They victimize communities; they victimize families and the elderly in particular,

Sandra Tsing Loh

I am a member of the 'sandwich' generation, that group that must simultaneously care for elderly parents and support children.

Most elderly are likely to pay from HK$10,300 up to HK$30,000.

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.

Holbrook Jackson

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

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.

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.

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.