Quotes About Elderly

Open your heart and love and be loved, my mother still loves me. She's 96.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier.

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

On one occasion Aliverdi Khan told his elderly general, Mir Jafar Khan, that the Europeans were like a hive of bees, 'of whose honey you might reap benefit, but if you disturbed their hive they would sting you to death'.

From the shade of the Ivy covered porch the old men sat in ladder back chairs and watched the hot blacktop. They'd sit day long and wait for something to happen, anything to happen, waiting for the road to entertain them. These were old man in clean shirts and suspenders and pants so roomy they could've held another old-timer and shoes split down the sides for comfort.

So quiet that house was in the night, so quiet all the other little homes around it were that held the elderly in them and the old alone or still in couples sleeping early, waking, lying awake and thinking about the past. So much past every night in the silence settling over those houses that all looked much the same on a hillside creeping up against the rock and gorse and tipping down to the river where it widened, widened and ended in the sea.

As one critic of these schemes wrote, 'the only winners in equity release are the companies and elderly people who die just a few years after taking out the policy.

I've had lots of kids come up and ask for my autograph, I've had a grandmother stop me and ask me if I know a good place to buy underwear.

My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her.

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal.

Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.

When I was in boy scouts, I slipped on the ice and hurt my ankle. A little old lady had to help me across the street.

Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.

If someone says to you, Go to an old-folks home, thats kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.

It got up to 94 degrees today – that's pretty good at my age.

Irony of the day: arthritis medication with a cap that old people can't get off, because of their arthritis.

Blessed are you when you enjoyed the company of elderly people. They are always ready to share their rich experience and wisdom with young people.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.