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Quotes About Elderly

What about golf? It's something else. It has its own unique niche in society. The gala country club life. It's a delightful game for elderly executives or even young executives who want to make big deals about selling manufactured products. I can't take it seriously. Deep-sea
~ Lawrence Grobel
A cranky old woman who makes good doughnuts is better than a cranky old woman who doesn't.
~ Lemony Snicket
A cranky old woman who makes good doughnuts is better than a cranky old woman who doesn't.
~ Lemony Snicket
GRANDMA DOTTY WANDERED into the kitchen, singing at the top of her lungs. She was wearing a tracksuit and a pair of rainbow-striped leg warmers.
~ James Patterson
los bondadosos deseos de prosperidad expresados por todas las malévolas ancianas de Meryton apenas
~ Jane Austen
There is now scientific research that proves that gardening promotes well-being in people experiencing depression or distress, including those who are elderly, homeless, or mentally ill. Indeed, putting one's hands in the soil, feeling the texture of plants, smelling their scents, and looking at their calming colors can relax the mind and uplift the spirits.
~ Jane Goodall
When Grandma Mazur is talking about the reason for the improved play of her 91-year-old bowling teammate, she said: She's doing better now that we got her the longer tubing to her oxygen tank.
~ Janet Evanovich
I don't know what this country's coming to when an old lady can't keep a gun in her purse.
~ Janet Evanovich
Mr. Morganthal shuffled out of the elevator and winked at me. "Hey, hootchie-mamma," he said. "Want a hot date?" He was ninety-two and lived on the third floor, next to Mrs. Delgado. "You're too late," I told him. "I've already made plans." "That's just as well. You'd probably kill me," Mr. Morganthal said.
~ Janet Evanovich
I'll go first," Grandma said, taking the Maglite and forging ahead. "I'm already too old to die young.
~ Janet Evanovich
Unlike other loans, a reverse mortgage doesn't have to be repaid until the borrower moves out of the home or passes away.
~ Jean Chatzky
The destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey is unlike anything my home state has ever experienced. As long as I live, I'll never forget those images of elderly women waiting in waist-deep water to be rescued.
~ Jeb Hensarling
In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.
~ Ginny Brown-Waite
A universal basic income would be the best way to give everyone the opportunity to do more unpaid but incredibly important work, such as caring for children and the elderly.
~ Rutger Bregman
I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician.
~ Jon Meacham
After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.
~ Tony Campolo
The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
~ William Osler
For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!
~ Carol Vorderman
My aunt Geraldine was the unofficial historian and storyteller. She had all the information about family members and the gossip that came out of the church because we were very much part of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. At family gatherings, the older folk had the floor, had pride of place, and it was their stories I remember.
~ John Edgar Wideman
As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.
~ Claire McCaskill
At age 68, I expect to be strapped to the couch with the remote control like Jim Royle.
~ Tony Bellew
It's a dreadful thing to be strapped for cash when you are elderly. It's awful when you're young, too, but you always have hope.
~ June Brown
In the summer of 1935, FDR launched the Second Hundred Days, one of the great thrusts of domestic change ever seen—zero to sixty in an eyeblink, by government time. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act to ensure that the pensionless elderly would not starve, started the Works Progress Administration to keep the government payroll rolling, and backed the National Labor Relations Act, which enshrined union rights in the workplace. The
~ Timothy Egan
postwar America. He learned the insurance business by day and braille by night. Before long the VA found him a job with an elderly insurance broker in his neighborhood. Not too long after that, Broderick had established his own insurance
~ Tom Brokaw