Senior Quotes - Page 7

• Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring.

  Jim Bunning

  Girl, Baby, Years

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• I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.

  Pee Wee Reese

  Sports, Spring, School

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• H.P. Lovecraft is for the summer between junior and senior years in high school. Cosmic fear hits you about then anyway -- you realize you'll soon have to Get a Real Job or Go To College or Both and in those days, Be Drafted. A dose of Cthulhu helps put these feelings in perspective.

  Howard Waldrop

  Summer, Jobs, Real

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• I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

  Janet Fitch

  Teacher, Writing, Kids

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• When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Malta, Prom, Happenings

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• Medicare is a promise we made to seniors more than four decades ago. When President Johnson signed Medicare into law, one in three seniors lived in poverty. Half of seniors had no health coverage at all.

  John Garamendi

  Law, Promise, President

  "The Fiscal Cliff Can’t Be Solved by Throwing Seniors Over the Cliff" by Rep. John Garamendi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.

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• I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

  Catherine Ashton

  Jobs, Men, Europe

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• I love to go into the studio on days when I'm not even doing anything. It's like my senior club. Some people go to senior centers, well I go to my senior center.

  Robert Morse

  People, Clubs, Wells

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

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• Before Medicare, nearly half of American seniors were forced to go without coverage because insurance companies were reluctant to insure them - making the chances of having health insurance as a senior the same as getting tails on a coin flip.

  John B. Larson

  Coins, Half, Flip

  "Five Things to Know About the GOP Plan for Medicare" by John B. Larson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2011.

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• At the end of the day, one of the most politically active voters in the country, seniors, will know who stood with them and who didn't.

  Judy Chu

  Country, The End Of The Day, Voters

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• It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable it can't possibly be literature.

  Tibor Fischer

  Strong, Laughter, Attitude

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• When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger.

  Ronaldinho

  Team, Calling, National Team

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• Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.

  Jay Weatherill

  Strong, Grace, Roles

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• "Just to have my kids be in the sun every day-picking avocados, going for a swim," she says. "Even for two years or something, and come back when they go to senior school." Just what kids want to do, pick avocados. Also: senior school?

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  School, Kids, Years

  "Gwyneth Unveiled". Interview with Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 11, 2013.

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• I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.

  Larry Wilcox

  Father, Integrity, Character

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

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• I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Teacher, Tired, Kids

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• The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the competitive success that could only be achieved by the deliberate direction of a senior management that possesses the combined knowledge of all employees and contractors

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  People, Management, Problem

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• This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
  Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
  The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
  Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Dwarves, Arms

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [189]

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• The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Responsibility, People, Dozen

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• The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I'd be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, 'sure!' That was the first acting thing I did.

  John Krasinski

  Sports, Teacher, Spring

  "Mandy Moore and John Krasinski Interview - LICENSE TO WED". Press Conference, collider.com. July 2, 2007.

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• You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

  Owen Wilson

  School, Thinking, Hollywood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves

  Barbara Mikulski

  America, Safety, Able

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• You have to remember that I played longer than anybody else on the main tour; I played until I was 40, and then played another six years or so on the seniors tour.

  Jimmy Connors

  Years, Six, Remember

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• And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior citizens that the world has ever seen. This is a continuing commitment to that.

  James T. Walsh

  Commitment, Drug, Groups

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• I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.

  Ed Pastor

  Support, Care, Legislation

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