Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Bennett

Unexplained weight loss in the elderly usually triggers an investigation (by the person's physician).

Two-thirds of our patients are the elderly who are on Medicare and fixed incomes.

Amy Bloom

My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments.

Orson F. Whitney

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my parents worked.

Kathleen Blanco

Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.

Juan Williams

The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly.

Health departments, in particular, they're having to postpone their clinics and turn away elderly people who might want their shots. It's important that people recognize that if they need to get a shot in November or December, that's fine.

I wanted to be involved with the elderly and be involved in their lives. I'm missing out on that with my own parents who live in Florida.

A lot of them were really stuck in their ways and felt there was no reason to leave. I think of everybody I talked to, nobody left. I persuaded a lot of people to go to the Superdome. Of course, you worry about the people, especially the elderly people. My prayers are with them.

This is a time for people to come together, let go of differences, recognize their similarities, and share who they are and where they come from. It has been shared by tribal elders that in order for healing to begin, we must let go of resentments or harsh feelings.

They have all been elderly people who had serious underlying diseases.

Herman Melville

Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!

Chris Lilley

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.'

George Saunders

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.

Florida's elderly aren't cuddly. The men were a little nicer.

Joseph Stiglitz

Elderly people remember when they could go to the movie for a nickel or a quarter,

We didn't know anything about this population anymore. We didn't know who was there. We didn't know if it was an elderly population or a sick population. We didn't know if they had any education.

Anthony Shadid

I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power of their story.

We saw so many people in great need. One person had liver cancer, and one elderly person walked with a cane.

We feel strongly that Regis has been a great neighbor for a very long time. The idea is great; the town needs more elderly housing. We are in favor of that. It's just the scope of this project we can't accept.

The trees in the middle grow majestic because of it. How important it is that we all get together and help those nameless faces to grow ? the elderly and homeless and the needy ?

Nikolai Gogol

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

Mason Cooley

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

Michael Moore

Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.

Lillian Gordy Carter

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

He (Somoza, the elder in Nicaragua) may be an SOB but he's our SOB

Nick Park

In many ways, I thought of them as an elderly couple, ... They're inseparable, they live in each other's pockets. There's a kind of love-hate relationship, but they'll always look out for each other at the end of the day.

Nick Park

In many ways, I thought of them as an elderly couple,

In Moss Point, there were people who had insurance and money to fix themselves up. I'm not there for them. I'm there to help the elderly and handicapped who did not have insurance or the means to repair their homes.

Ilion could use a grocery store because people could use some things and they've got to truck all the way to Herkimer to get it. So it would be nice to have something in Ilion so that the elderly people would have a place to go.

It's a neighbor helping neighbor program and it is a wonderful thing. It's for the elderly who want to stay in their homes. I know I will want to and I hope North Haven residents will support it.

Gore Vidal

It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill.