My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
When facing a child, I become a child. When facing an elderly person, or a husband, or a wife, in my heart,… — Masahisa Goi Copy Share Image
...it's as empty as a merchant's soul. Sorry, Kheldar, it's just an old expression." "That's all right, Beldin," Silk forgave him grandly.… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
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“When we attempt to clear up the mess others have made, or when we love the unlovely, we demonstrate the kind of… — Ann Benton Copy Share Image
I think people underestimate the romance audience. It's everything from career women to high school girls to elderly women. I have male… — Heather Graham Pozzessere Copy Share Image
“...please accept the fact that people do not change over time.The elderly are, in reality, age tikes.Conversely, the young are juvenile codgers.Granted,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Elderly people are like plants. Whereas some go to seed, or to pot, others blossom in the most wonderful ways. I believe… — James Simpson Copy Share Image
Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis] has done this not through angry speeches, but through the powerful symbols and examples of embracing a badly deformed man,… — John I. Jenkins Copy Share Image
The more we rely on the market, the more hooked we become on its promises: Do you need a tidier closet? A… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
“He may be deaf and a little hard of thinking, but elderly wizards have very well-trained survival instincts, and they know that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“In western narrative, isolation is liberation, the elderly is inconvenient, apathy is aesthetic - invasion is ambition, exploitation is exploration, indifference is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities -… — Kathleen Blanco Copy Share Image
“Blessed are you when you enjoyed the company of elderly people. They are always ready to share their rich experience and wisdom… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
When I've ridden in parades, I always throw to the kids, the elderly and anyone who is smiling and having a great… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and… — Bible Copy Share Image
I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've… — Sarah Ferguson Copy Share Image
Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the… — Dr Robert H Goddard Copy Share Image
Modeling was another job like some of the other ones I had. Working as a cashier, I delivered newspapers, I worked in… — Kathy Ireland Copy Share Image
The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly. — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for… — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long… — Cloris Leachman Copy Share Image
It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“why as a society we are often so cruel or oblivious to the elderly. Why do we find it so easy to… — Hugh Thomson Copy Share Image
A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
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