Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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.

Juan Williams

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

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.

Lillian Gordy Carter

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Nikolai Gogol

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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,

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

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.

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.

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.

George Will

The elderly are being subsidized to an astonishing degree.

Henry A. Kissinger

The elderly are useless eaters.

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 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.

Herman Melville

Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!

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.

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.'