Elderly Quotes - Page 8

• Theres no such thing as ageing gracefully. I dont meet people who want to get Alzheimers disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Cancer, People, Disease

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• When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion - the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.

  Isaac Asimov

  Science, Ideas, Support

  Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1977.

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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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• 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 have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation in the ‘village’ is one of the most destructive messages we daily write on the tablets of their hearts.

  Wess Stafford

  Country, Lonely, Children

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.55, WaterBrook

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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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• Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?

  Julian Barnes

  Eye, World, Saws

  Julian Barnes (2010). “England, England”, p.258, Random House

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• I'm an elderly gentleman. I haven't been in a fight involving bodily contact in 60 years. Look, I fall trying to put on my underwear in the morning.

  Pete Stark

  Morning, Fall, Fighting

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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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• What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

  Umberto Eco

  Honor, Panic, Action

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.

  Pope Francis

  Two, Economic Inequality, News

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

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• Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

  Claude Pepper

  Retirement, Security Systems, Racism

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• Treat the elderly as a nonrenewable resource; they care!

  Woodrow M. Kroll

  Age, Care, Resources

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• A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Military, Men, Opinion

  "Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.

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• Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Play, Important

  "A Robot in Every Home" by Bill Gates, www.scientificamerican.com. February 1, 2008.

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• Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

  Maya Angelou

  Time, Children, War

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.10, Bantam

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• To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be ashamed of. If elder abuse happened to me, it can happen to anyone. I want you to know that you deserve better.

  Mickey Rooney

  Senior, Veterans Day, Abuse

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