Old People Quotes - Page 6

• A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

  Cass Sunstein

  People, Welfare, Program

  "America Senses Something's Not Right" By Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. August 6, 2009.

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• Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam's fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.

  John Ortberg

  Hurt, People, Perfect

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• From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

  Rex Hunt

  Teaching, Thinking, Fishing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.

  Ernest Gaines

  Children, People, Looks

  Ernest J. Gaines (2012). “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman”, p.211, Bantam

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• I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.

  Helene Hanff

  Home, People, Want

  "The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street".

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• I've always been making stuff. I had a very free upbringing, and very encouraging parents. I just found that it was a really cool thing, to write songs. And then, I think it was probably about when I was about 19 years old, people started telling me I should try to do this, get the music out.

  Ida Maria

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing for the worst, but we're hoping for the best. And I've told people the end is in sight.

  Gray Davis

  Summer, Years, Sight

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• One night I couldn't sleep and I was up and just Googling random stuff and I'm like, 'Hmmm, PETA.' I saw all the videos and I just thought it was horrible, Pickler told People. It's animal cruelty. A lot of it has to do with knowing what happens to the animals and it really bothered me and so I will not eat meat.

  Kellie Pickler

  Sleep, Night, Animal

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• Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do

  Wilfred Owen

  Numbers, People

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.322, Delphi Classics

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• Be nice to old people.

  Jaime Murray

  Nice, People, Being Nice

  "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Beautiful old people are works of art.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Beautiful, Art, Nursing

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• I'm a naturist at heart. I love being on beaches where everyone is naked. Ugly young people, beautiful old people, whatever. It's so unsexual and so liberating.

  Helen Mirren

  Beautiful, Beach, Heart

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• Eating is sex for old people.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Sex, People, Eating

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “The Marriage of Sticks”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Strong, People

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table Talk”

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• Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Funny, Humor, Years

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

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• My mother loved my father. From my view, she let him get away with too much. It broke my heart to see him in an old people's home and stop being strong and lose his voice.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Mother, Strong, Father

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Dream, Growing Up, Years

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it.

  Stromae

  People, Want, Young

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• [I'm inspired by ] courageous young people who take a stand and go into the field to serve; really old people who see that every minute of life is to be lived fully and compassionately; and so many between this world and that world.

  Joan Halifax

  People, World, Fields

  Source: zenpeacemakers.org

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• Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, People

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• People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

  Agnes Varda

  Children, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• The only reason there is a crisis about Social Security in the US and pensions in Europe and Japan is that you cannot maintain a "Ponzi" scheme indefinitely. We have collected from today's young to pay today's old and counted on tomorrow's young to keep doing so. That was a fine scheme as long as the number of young people was rising faster than old people. When that ratio comes to an end, such a system also has to end.

  Milton Friedman

  Japan, Europe, Numbers

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• On aging societies, there is no reason why a country that has a lot of old people can't be prosperous if, during their working lives, individuals provide for their retirement.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Retirement, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less.

  Atul Gawande

  Team, Independent, People

  "Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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• It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however, ancient, can be trusted without proof. ... Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Giving Up, Thinking, People

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

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