Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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

Peter O'Toole

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

Laura Schlessinger

The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.

Robert A. Heinlein

If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.

Regina Brett

While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.

Richard Armour

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

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.

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.

Tucker Carlson

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.

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.