Quotes About Elderly

Of course, many have benefited from Social Security over the decades, especially the elderly. But the overall structure, which as Roosevelt insisted at the outset, put politics before economics, was and is, in the end, economically and fiscally irrational and irresponsible.

The state has gradually annexed all the responsibilities of adulthood - health care, child care, care of the elderly - to the point where it's effectively severed its citizens from humanity's primal instincts, not the least the survival instinct...They corrode the citizen's sense of self-reliance to a potentially fatal degree.

The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy award voter with a tampon in her purse.

I'd like to punch out a really old lady. There'd be no repercussions.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

I'm so old they've canceled my blood type.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and hope

I will embrace this moment with Love in my Heart. And how will I act? I will Love all manners of man for each have qualities to be admired eventhough they've been hidden. I will Love the ambitious for they can inspire me. I will Love the youth for the faith they hold. I will Love the elderly wise one for the wisdom they share. I will Love and Live this moment with the people around me.

Love with old men is as the sun upon the snow, it dazzles more than it warms them

Oh, it's a long, long while From May to December, But the days grow short, When you reach September.

One of the most important jobs of the youth is to make the elderly happy.

Smiling face is always beautiful even if it is hundred years old!

For the first half of your life each minute feels like a year, but for the second half, each year feels like a minute.

the old woman said just as the machine let out a loud honking sound that could only be described as a fart.

The elderly tend to get fewer colds than kids, even though they have a weakened immune system. This happens because our systems develop defenses against antigens; we acquire antibodies to the germs we've defeated in the past (stored in plasma cells in your bone marrow, as mentioned earlier in Chapter 6), and destroy those antigens and viruses before they can multiply and cause that illness.

65) Dumbledore's Death When Dumbledore died in the Half Blood Prince, he was 150 years old.

elderly, sedentary women have a 50 percent chance of getting an upper-respiratory illness during the fall season, those randomized to begin a half-hour-a-day walking program dropped their risk down to 20 percent. Among conditioned runners, though, the risk was just 8 percent.53 Exercising appeared to make their immune systems more than five times better at fighting infection. So what's going on here? How does the simple act of moving

Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.

Head up, back like a ramrod, Dotty faced her solicitor. Tears were coursing down her papery old cheeks and splashing unchecked upon the fur coat. But, through the tears, Dotty's expression was one of utter triumph.