Elderly Quotes - Page 3

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

  Donald Laird

  Years, Forget

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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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• 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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• Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hash, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

  John Donne

  Running, Kings, Years

  John Donne (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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

  Nikolai Gogol

  Young, Gogol

  Nikolai Gogol (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nikolai Gogol (Illustrated)”, p.132, Delphi Classics

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• If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

  Arthur Smith

  Live Life, Writing, Gentleman

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• In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival. A plump person is envied because they aren't scraping by like the majority of us. But here is different. Wrinkles aren't desirable. A round belly isn't a sign of success.

  Suzanne Collins

  Wrinkles, People, Achievement

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.167, Scholastic Inc.

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• I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399)

  Jodi Picoult

  Religious, Wall, Believe

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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