Quotes About Elderly

Her age was one of the reasons she always got away with it. In Africa elderly people still command respect.

I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old.

left to the inferior animals called older people.

why as a society we are often so cruel or oblivious to the elderly. Why do we find it so easy to make jokes about them, or ignore them? Is it because we fear what they represent: our own ageing and approaching death?

We are sold the idea of a refugee as a tiny child sitting crying, as a way of raising money, but elderly ladies and kids largely can't move. The demographic is mostly young men.

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.

I started to respect older actors when I was young and then contemporary actors later on. Then I learned respect for comedy. When I was first doing theatre, I thought of it as just a means to become Sarah Bernhardt or someone like that. But acting with young people has been a great learning experience.

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do.

Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.

Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.

We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.

As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

To me, it is clear that the Social Security program is constitutional.

It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.

I don't support getting rid of Social Security.

Social Security is fundamentally strong.

Claiming that Social Security benefits are safe may sound naive, but my view is actually quite cynical. I believe that as long as the elderly continue to vote in large numbers, no Congress will renege on promised payouts for those already eligible to receive benefits.

We got to fight to protect Social Security.

Social Security is the most important social program in America.