Elderly Quotes

• The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

  Bill Nighy

  Way, Cases, Treated

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• A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Roots, Long, People

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.131, Pan Macmillan

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• What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

  Bernie Sanders

  Children, Giving, Care

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• Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Birthday, Beautiful, Art

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• Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die.

  Mel Brooks

  Running, Song, Oxygen

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• It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Children, Twilight

  Speech at dedication of Hubert H. Humphrey Building,Washington, D.C., 1 Nov. 1977

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• We are always the same age inside.

  Gertrude Stein

  Happy Birthday, Confidence, Positive Thinking

  "The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.

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• How about no income tax at all on people over 65? People would continue working, remain healthier, not be an economic and social drain on society. Then the elderly would also have more disposable income to help charitable activities.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, People, Income

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• 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.

  Cloris Leachman

  Home, Kids, Long

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• Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.

  Geddy Lee

  Writing, Rocks, Years

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• 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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• Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

  Lewis Mumford

  Life, Littles, Forgotten

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• Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

  Bertrand Russell

  Umpires, Ignorant, Religion

  Look Magazine, February 23, 1954.

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• Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.

  John Shadegg

  Retirement, Thinking, Germany

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• As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

  Cal Thomas

  Ease, Pressure, Financial

  "Death of Terri Schiavo ... Threatens Us All" by Cal Thomas, www.foxnews.com. March 28, 2005.

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• Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Children, Population, Needs

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• I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.

  Tony Hillerman

  Writing, Home, People

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• One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

  Jim Rohn

  Relationship, Sympathy, Kindness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 10, 2017

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• If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.

  Jane Birkin

  Home, Cities, Rivers

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• So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.

  George J. Mitchell

  Mother, Couple, Father

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• In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Women, Income, Facts

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• I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

  Ade Edmondson

  Men, Laughing So Hard, Remember

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

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• Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

  Victor Hugo

  Birthday, Health, Medicine

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• You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

  Anouk Aimee

  Beauty, Real, 50th Birthday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Choices, Citizens, Care

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