Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Cusack

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

Peter O'Toole

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

Paul Krugman

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

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.

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.

Henry A. Kissinger

The elderly are useless eaters.

George Will

The elderly are being subsidized to an astonishing degree.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Winston Churchill

Elderly people and those in authority cannot always be relied upon to take enlightened and comprehending views of what they call the indiscretions of youth.

Yoweri Museveni

Our population is growing rapidly because of our good health policy. When I came into office, there were 14 million Ugandans, today there are 38 million, despite the catastrophe of AIDS, which we have also tackled. The Ugandans know and appreciate this, especially the elderly.

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.

Umberto Eco

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