Quotes About Elderly

Old couples who are still in love are one of the cutest things out there.

True love isn't Romeo and Juliet who died together. It's Grandma and Grandpa who grew old together.

This reportedly drew condemnation from Dunstan, but the archbishop was very elderly and died

in the autumn of 684, Theodore – now in his early eighties – had been obliged to make his way laboriously northwards

and he was now almost seventy years old.

You mean, we should only beat up young people?" Davenport asked. "There are as many old assholes as there are young ones. Especially since the boomers got old.

I take my two pipes in the afternoon, no more and no less, like the elders. And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing—maybe more important than a star.

Joseph was elderly and lean and serious, and his life was so complicated that only a profound man would know him to be simple.

Though old himself, he disliked old men.

Humanitarian issues must bring together all people who act in good faith trying to alleviate the suffering of people in dire need - especially women, children and the elderly.

You know you're old when your family talk about you in front of you. What are we going to do with Pop? We have company tonight.

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not only for what life has in happiness to both young and old, but also for one must be careful in live honestly as well as die honestly.

Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, and an old man with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind.

Old men are garrulous by nature.

We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

If you need a baby that bad, go down to the pound and get one. Not even a baby - go get an old man. There's unwanted people of all ages, pre-made and waiting for you.

How do you get a sweet little 80-year-old lady to say the F word? Get another sweet little 80-year-old lady to yell BINGO!

Never ask old people how they are if you have anything to do that day.

The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit.

A group of elderly gravediggers was working to reinter them, the men's breath condensing in the cold air.

Moreover, in private prisons people of color are even more overrepresented than they are in federal and state prison populations. This is because private prisons contract to avoid housing the more costly elderly prisoner. They prefer the younger bodies, and so they hold more of the youth of color, the bulk of these coming in as targets of the recent "war on drugs.

Correctional officers, who lack resources for caring for the elderly, are also systematically hostile to providing medical treatment of prisoners, even though "the graying of the prison population has become a national epidemic afflicting states around the country—from California to Missouri to Florida.