Quotes About Elderly

Medicines are only fit for old people.

TOM Old people, though? Come on. We're all gonna age. It's … CARTER Not me. I hope I'm a goner before then. The elderly make me sick …

One of the symptoms of senile dementia is suspicion and the other is paranoia.

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

In the old man's face there was nothing very special - save that the chin was so greatly projected that whenever he spoke he was forced to wipe it with a handkerchief to avoid dribbling.

He saw her as she had been when he met her at UCLA. He was going to fight diseases of the body and she, diseases of a society that seemed to her too shortsighted and indifferent to survive. She preached at him about old-fashioned, long-lost causes—human rights, the elderly, the ecology, throwaway children, corporate government, the vast rich-poor gap and the shrinking middle class. …She should have been born twenty or thirty years earlier.

Today, our society is caught in the grip of superficial values—glamour, glitter, materialism, a pathological emphasis on youth, a neglect of the elderly, the handicapped. Families are being broken up under the impact of a frenzied desire for success. Violence is glorified and paraded in front of children every day on the media.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

More than the secret of the cat had drawn [Ned] to the nursing home. It was Mr. Scully himself. He'd known him, his habits, the things he knew how to do, the way he made his bread, the way he could get a fire started so quickly in the stove, the stories he told, the smile he gave Ned when he poured rum into his own tea, his memories of his long life.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

They had fallen into that instant, easy friendship which feels as though it had begun before any of your memories and will last until you are so old that the humped veins on the back of your hands show dark blue-purple through your wax-white skin.

like many elderly people, she has developed a selective sense of hearing. She ignores me and continues on her own track...

He asked if they were well, and then he asked, “How is your elderly father you told me about? Is he still alive?”

You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.

a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.

Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.

No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.