Quotes About Elderly

It's like Charlie told the cop. For this old man, this is home.

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If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.

Before you become elderly; learn how to care, respect, and love elder-ones since you will be that one thereupon and ultimately.

Residing with elderly parents to care for them, reflects an incredible service; conversely, living separately, and such practice means a help as a compulsion, not adorable service. In this context, help can't be equally and precisely, as a dedicated service.

True respect to an elderly person is to positively accept whatever he/she says is right, but also proactively correct whenever he/she is wrong.

He possessed an unflinching belief that all people — the poor, children, the elderly — were human assets, waiting to be developed so they could earn their success.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.

It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it.

It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.

I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do all these plays with the old people. I did 'The Wizard of Oz;' it was adapted. There was a guy there who played the harmonica, so we had an overture, and The Wizard was 96.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'

They say the people most affected by the credit crunch are pensioners - well, let go of the handbag then, Nanna.

I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say, in an office full of elderly people who looked after blind ex-servicemen.

she knew that Grandmother was no longer with them. The dazed look in the old man's eyes told her as much. She wanted to cry — not for Grandmother, who could suffer no more, but for Grandfather, who looked so helpless and bewildered; she did not want him to be unhappy.

The door of Reverend Verringer's impressive manse is opened by an elderly female with a face like a pine plank; the Reverend is unmarried, and has need of an irreproachable housekeeper. Simon is ushered into the library. It is so self-consciously the right sort of library that he has an urge to set fire to it.

La notte e vicina per me. Those were the words that an elderly Italian woman, an old crone who swept the stairs, had uttered to Fran when she was working as an au pair girl in Florence, a hundred years ago.

Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.