Quotes About Elderly

I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working.

I definitely wanna open up some assisted-living facilities around my city.

Our society has a tendency to ignore or diminish the value of the infirm and the frail elderly. Their suffering and physical debilitation are reminders of our own mortality and the last act that awaits us all. But as the lives of Blessed Mother Teresa and Saint Pope John Paul II teach us, the end can be the most efficacious part of a life.

There are a lot of elderly people in Flint who are homebound and can't get the supplies they need.

I think it's strange when people my age and younger get surgery. Somebody's got to play old people.

The woman and the white-haired old man looked at the clock, as if it might tell them something about their situation and what they were supposed to do next.

I'm not a young man. I'm old, tired and full of no coffee.

A person in her twenties has been a child for most of her life, but as time goes by that portion that is childhood becomes smaller and smaller, more and more distant, more and more faded, though they say at the end of life the beginning returns with renewed vividness, as though you had sailed all the way around the world and were going back into the darkness from which you came.

We're turning into a geriatric society. The old are fighting back. They have the great advantage of an irresistible recruitment programme. It's called living.

The conveniences of modern culture cater exclusively to youth, and that the times grow increasingly inconsiderate of old people

It will seem odd, I suppose, that I should go on in this vein, as if I too were grumbling in my dotage. Yet of this I am convinced, that the conveniences of modern culture cater exclusively to youth, and that the times grow increasingly inconsiderate of old people.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

I remember filling my car up in London when an 85-year-old man said to me, 'You've done our age group proud.' That made me laugh. I'm not quite there yet!

The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny.

A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.

the old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

This week, a 95-year-old woman married a 98-year-old man to become the world's oldest newlyweds. They're registered at Bed, Sponge Bath and Beyond.

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.