Quotes About Elderly

For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.

I have a nap every afternoon like a little boy. Or an old man. Depending on how you look at it.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

Old people have a much better time in India because they're respected.

I know why politicians want to go on TV: that's where really old people are. And old people vote.

I think old people should just be old and go away.

I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being.

I don't like to see people on trolleys in hospitals; I don't like to see old people sitting in chairs for hours.

I just really love hanging out with really old people. They're the best dinner dates you could ever have. All that life experience and understanding.

I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

So many older people are on a very small budget and just wouldn't be able to afford a TV licence.

We don't do enough to help older people recognize how much they matter.

Nothing makes me want to scream louder than oldies doddering on to a train at a slow shuffle when the rest of us are just trying to get on with our day.

Of course I think so. Have you forgotten what I told you the other day?' 'Yes,' said Lord Emsworth. He always forgot what people told him the other day.

He was as completely happy as only a fluffy-minded old man with excellent health and a large income can be.

I eluded them, therefore, with no great expenditure of physical effort, but I would be deceiving my public if I said that I was enjoying the episode. It offends one's pride when one has to leap like a lamb in Springtime at the bidding of an elderly little Gawd-help-us with whom it is impossible to reason.

In some ways the experience of these young men paralleled the experience of the very old. They looked back on intense memories and felt lonely because there was nobody left alive who'd been there.