Top Elderly Quotes Collection
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At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.Collection: Elderly
Niko caught my hand and slapped it lightly down on the bar. “Pistol whipping elderly women isn’t precisely our mission statement, Cal.” I hadn’t been going to pistol-whip her. Yell at her a little more, then pick her up and toss her out into the street. Some risk of a broken hip there, but that wasn’t pistol-whipping… unless she tried to come back in.Collection: Elderly
Treat the elderly as a nonrenewable resource; they care!Collection: Elderly
Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.Collection: Elderly
Elderly people are like heat-seeking missiles for people who really have an interest in listening.Collection: Elderly
Everybody welcome-especially elders who smoke.Collection: Elderly
The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.Collection: Elderly
Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.Collection: Elderly
The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.Collection: Elderly
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.Collection: Elderly
The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.Collection: Elderly
To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years.Collection: Elderly
Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and steals our innocence, its finality leaves us unnaturally older. There are too many elderly young people.Collection: Elderly
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.Collection: Elderly
I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, "No, it's for me."Collection: Elderly
A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and hope.Collection: Elderly
The elderly are useless eaters.Collection: Elderly
I actually had the urge to elbow an elderly lady today.Collection: Elderly
A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker. "Grammy's here!" he shouts. He puts some MacAttack Mac&Cheese in the microwave and dons headphones and takes out a video game so he won't be bored during the forty seconds it takes his lunch to cook. A truck comes around the corner and hits Grammy, sending her flying over the roof into the backyard, where luckily she lands on a trampoline. Unluckily, she bounces back over the roof, into the front yard, landing on a rosebush.Collection: Elderly
At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John to step behind the tape. John claims that here he told the guards that he could not speak English and when that failed to persuade them, he fa...ked a violent seizure. I am unclear as to the purpose of this part of his plan. John flung himself down and began rolling around in the snow, thrashing his limbs about and screaming “EL SEIZURE!!! NO ES BUENO!!!” in a Mexican accent.Collection: Elderly
Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!Collection: Elderly
The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.Collection: Elderly
We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful results. . . . The British State considers it the duty of an Englishman to kill people who are not English whenever a collection of elderly gentlemen in Westminster tells him to do so. . . . Church and State are placable enemies of both intelligence and virtue.Collection: Elderly
He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.Collection: Elderly
I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.Collection: Elderly
A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young.Collection: Elderly
I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean language', which of course was catnip to me, especially as I'd recently discovered Lispector doing pretty much the same to Portuguese.Collection: Elderly
The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.Collection: Elderly
A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.Collection: Elderly
Yes, older drivers are more likely to injure themselves and others when they get behind the wheel. But if you take that away, that is really the last lifeline a lot of elderly people have.Collection: Elderly
Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved.Collection: Elderly
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.Collection: Elderly
Elderly people, I have found, when they're being honest, are also scumbags, and enjoy a little prurient humour as well.Collection: Elderly
The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.Collection: Elderly
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.Collection: Elderly
Our population is growing rapidly because of our good health policy. When I came into office, there were 14 million Ugandans, today there are 38 million, despite the catastrophe of AIDS, which we have also tackled. The Ugandans know and appreciate this, especially the elderly.Collection: Elderly
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.Collection: Elderly
Where the elderly are not honored, there is no future for the young.Collection: Elderly
In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderlyCollection: Elderly
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.Collection: Elderly
Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills. 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?Collection: Elderly
There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.Collection: Elderly
It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.Collection: Elderly
No elderly person should be like an “exile” in our families. The elderly are a treasure for our society.Collection: Elderly
If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.Collection: Elderly
Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.Collection: Elderly
So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and assistance for the disabled - few dare ring the alarm of looming economic catastrophe that threatens to destabilize the civil society.Collection: Elderly
Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!Collection: Elderly