Elderly Quotes - Page 6

• People, workers, the elderly, all these people I see with sympathy and affection. These are the people who have fought the battle of life and who now and then show the hard work and the frustration ...It's all about human activity, it's truth, and we all get there.

  Duane Hanson

  Hard Work, Frustration, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• For us, warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who can not provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity.

  Sitting Bull

  Children, Fighting, Warrior

  "Follow the Money Deep Underground" by Shadi Rahimi, www.motherjones.com. December 2, 2008.

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• It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.

  Pope Francis

  Sin, Mortal Sin, Mortals

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• Also, I learned whether you are gay, bisexual, it doesn't matter, you know... because, at the end of the day, they're both gross. But mostly, I learned that elderly black women are wise beyond their years... but younger black women are prostitutes.

  Sarah Silverman

  Wise, Gay, Bisexual

  "The Sarah Silverman Program", February 1, 2007 - April 15, 2010.

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• Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Believe, Ignorant, Would Be

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• Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.

  Richard Lamm

  Senior, Retirement, Thinking

  "Lamm on the Line". Interview With Peter Doskoch, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1996.

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• She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe.

  Jasper Fforde

  Rest Of Life, Expectations, Missing

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• It's inappropriate for an elderly chap to register, you know, authentically, his feelings, you know, because they really can be interpreted. So you have to get quite covert as you get older. Or you have to find some avuncular way, you know, of responding.

  Leonard Cohen

  Feelings, Way, Inappropriate

  "Leonard Cohen On Poetry, Music And Why He Left The Zen Monastery". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 21, 2016.

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

  William Levada

  Children, Plight, Scandal

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• People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

  Ramsey Clark

  Relationship, People, Forgotten

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• As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.

  Albert Einstein

  Men

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.374, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• There are many rules for the elderly in the Highway Code. I have one too, and here it is: get a bloody move on.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Moving, Highways, Bloody

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  If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.

  Michio Kaku

  Views, Years, Greek

  "Captain Michio and the World of Tomorrow" by Brian Bolduc, www.wsj.com. March 9, 2012.

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• When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Country, Religious, Morning

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Elderly people and those in authority cannot always be relied upon to take enlightened and comprehending views of what they call the indiscretions of youth.

  Winston Churchill

  Views, People, Youth

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• There are many tired gardeners but I've seldom met old gardeners. I know many elderly gardeners but the majority are young at heart. Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. The one absolute of gardeners is faith. Regardless of how bad past gardens have been, every gardener believes that next year's will be better. It is easy to age when there is nothing to believe in, nothing to hope for, gardeners, however, simply refuse to grow up.

  Allan Armitage

  Death, Dream, Growing Up

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• When facing a child, I become a child. When facing an elderly person, or a husband, or a wife, in my heart, I too am an elderly person, husband, or a wife. While I am talking with a person, in my heart, nothing exists except that person.

  Masahisa Goi

  Children, Husband, Heart

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• If it wasn't a chaotic scene, if it was an orderly evacuation, we would be able to give you specifics about what our preferences would be, such as evacuating first the disabled, then the elderly and infants. That would of course be our preference. But the reality on the scene does not permit that. We're going to do the best we can with the resources we have.

  David Catania

  Reality, Giving, Would Be

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• We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular solidarity with the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters: the poor, the disabled, the unborn and the sick, migrants and refugees, the elderly and the young who lack employment.

  Pope Francis

  Inspiring, Wise, Brother

  Pope Francis' Message to Cardinal Kurt Koch On The Occasion of The 10th General Assembly of The World Council Of Churches, w2.vatican.va. October 4, 2013.

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• I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Country, Hangover, Length

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “Wild Mountain Thyme”, p.90, Macmillan

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• So I fell in love with a rich attorney's
  Elderly ugly daughter.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Daughter, Ugly, Rich

  'Trial by Jury' (1875)

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