Elderly Quotes - Page 3

• I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!

  Roland Joffe

  Couple, Men, White Man

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• The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.

  John Cusack

  Links, Aging, Offers

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• It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often the last we think about.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.14, Orbis Books

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• Where the elderly are not honored, there is no future for the young.

  Pope Francis

  Young, Honored

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima-the "eternal present".

  H. E Davey

  Yoga, Thinking, Past

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• In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

  Pope Francis

  Dignity, Our Family, Recognise

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

  Andy Rooney

  Education, Feet, World

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• Bush equals Clinton equals Bush equals Obama equals Clinton. It's the same policies...immigration policies that may turn us into Europe, where hordes of Islamic madmen are raping, killing, pillaging, defecating in public fountains, harassing private citizens, elderly people - that's what's coming.

  Roger Stone

  Islamic, Europe, People

  "Trump Campaign CEO Was a Big Promoter of Anti-Muslim Extremists". www.motherjones.com. September 15, 2016.

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• Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies.

  Roz Chast

  Caring, America, Parent

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Jobs, House, Different

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• "What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home."

  Chauncey Depew

  Beautiful, Home, Lawyer

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• It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.

  Jose Saramago

  Fall, Scratches, Goes On

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• Cruelty is cruelty, whether it's cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens.

  Russell Simmons

  Dog, Children, Cat

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• Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Lonely, Home, Practice

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• In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.

  H. G. Wells

  Book, Men, Years

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.1397, Delphi Classics

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• The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Home, Climate

  Pope Francis (2016). “Praise Be to You: On Care for Our Common Home”, p.17, BookBaby

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• To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years.

  Donald Laird

  Years, Forget

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• Absolutely, everyone and anyone can get involved in yoga. I've seen really small kids doing it in my yoga class, right up to elderly people doing it.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Yoga, Kids, Class

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I'm an elderly Jewish lesbian trapped in a 33 year old nerd's body.

  Eric Andre

  Years, Nerd, Body

  Source: www.towleroad.com

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• Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker ... the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Sick, Care

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• The more we rely on the market, the more hooked we become on its promises: Do you need a tidier closet? A nicer family picture album? Elderly parents who are truly well cared for? Children who have an edge in school, on tests, in college and beyond? If we can afford the services involved, many if not most of us are prone to say, 'Sure, why not?

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Children, School, College

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• The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.

  William James

  Attitude, Discovery, Mind

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• It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.

  Pope Francis

  Sin, Mortal Sin, Mortals

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• A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Roots, Abandon

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• Human life, the person is no longer perceived as a primary value to be respected and protected, especially if poor or disabled, if not yet useful - such as the unborn child - or no longer needed - such as the elderly.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Unborn Child, Common

  "Pope Francis, one year later -- calling us to a deeper faith" By Maureen M. Ferguson, www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2014.

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