Quotes About Elderly

As a matter of fact, one of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, every five years you must have end-of-life counseling. Translation: suicide counseling.

Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.

Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror - on the things that I might have avoided. We can help one another but little. I used to think I could teach young people the whole of life, but I know better now, and all my teaching of George has come down to this: beware of muddle.

Old and stricken in years.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.

We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

I grew up in a retirement community in Florida.

I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes.

Memories rolled in his mind like the toothless mutterings of old women.

From 1983 to 2000, William Goren stole more than $30 million from investors on Long Island and in Queens. His favorite targets were widows and retired couples, like Helga and Simon Novack, Holocaust survivors who gave Mr. Goren their life savings.

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.

At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; I' m not in favour of means tests for pensioners or anybody.

But do remember that the most important risk factor for cancer is growing older. Most cancers occur in people over the age of 65.

The government, of course, will print money to bail out the banks' uncovered casino bets, but not to bail out the elderly from the theft of their funds.

Terrified to touch that emergency money she had stowed away, she was stretching her money as far as it would go—rent for Penny took the top position because she was certain the elderly darling needed it. Plus, she needed a place to live while she starved to death.

Isocrates was ninety years old in 346 BCE but as active an opinion-former as ever.

Then his head tipped down on his chest and he fell into the instant sleep of the ancient and the very young.

old age homes could look bright but feel gloomy—a place where old people went to die. And that the Sun Center was the opposite—a place where old people go to live.

He thought how the world would feel if it were populated solely by elderly women--a world of forbearance, where all touches were careful.

Things will always be desperate while old people don't make any move to change them,' Clio said.

When you get to a certain age, nothing matters. You only want to cling to your serenity and leave the dreaming and storming for those with steaming blood in their veins. Emotions are for the young; the elderly have no use for them.

He's ninety-two years old," Mr. Willet whispered to Min and Flora. "And my hearing is as sharp as ever," he said, and everyone laughed.

GOMER: Get Out of My Emergency Room; "a human being who has lost—often through age—what goes into being a human being" (the Fat Man).