Elderly Quotes · Page 6

“The paradox of life; everyone desire a fuller life. But no one wishes to increase in age.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

— Bertrand Russell

Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.

— James Russell Lowell

The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit.

— Jason Love

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

— Bill Gates

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

— John Cusack

Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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

— Umberto Eco

We must appreciate the dignity of life in all its seasons, even the path of the elderly in the twilight of their…

— George W. Bush

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

— Bill Nighy

“It’s not the specter of aging that haunts me. Rather, it’s the far greater fear of having aged and having nothing to…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.

— Rafael Cruz

“Overstimulation of IGF-1-signaling pathways in the brain due to milk consumption could thus accelerate the onset of neurodegenerative disease. IGF-1 passes the…

— Bodo Melnik

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of…

— Arthur Smith

I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly…

— Loretta Chase

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…

— Maggie Smith

Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims.…

— Sherrod Brown

Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say…

— Yuvraj Singh

The one good thing to be said about announcing yourself as a writer in the colonial Canadian fifties is that nobody told…

— Margaret Atwood

When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Our population is growing rapidly because of our good health policy. When I came into office, there were 14 million Ugandans, today…

— Yoweri Museveni

In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you…

— Suzanne Collins

It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of…

— Margaret Laurence

She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or…

— Jasper Fforde

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

— Michel de Montaigne

I make sure I do only audience-friendly films that can be watched with children and the elderly crowd.

— Sudeep

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

— Peter O'Toole

I like it when I see an elderly couple walking together, hand in hand. Because that proves to me that true love…

— Anonymous

“I'm on the Internet. I stay informed. They let old people on the Internet, you know.”

— Stephen Emond

Respect old people: they graduated highschool without Google or Wikipedia!

— Anonymous

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

— Maggie Smith

My mother, Carmen, cleaned houses and took care of elderly people.

— Kevin de Leon

Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.

— Geddy Lee

Films are deprived of the conventional elderly figures now. They are more into yo moms and dads.

— Alok Nath

“Sixty-four percent of the elderly believe in the right to end their lives in a humane manner once they’ve had enough.”

— Hendrik Groen

Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.

— Nachman of Breslov

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

— Edmund Wilson

My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.

— Mindy Kaling

“Robots would save the elderly from the woes of the ageing flesh.”

— Margaret Drabble

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

— Mason Cooley