Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Wong

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.

He (the elderly man) put on a shirt and tie and coat.

George Bernard Shaw

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.

Loretta Young

I know elderly people who have so lived in their long lives. Today, they find great pleasure in each and every day.

In this case, we had elderly people. There wasn't much they could do except hide in there.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Young Egyptians, gazing through the windows of the Internet, have gained a keener sense than many of their elders of the freedoms and opportunities they lack. They have found in social media a way to interact and share ideas, bypassing, in virtual space, the restrictions placed on physical freedom of assembly.

Jasper Fforde

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.

Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.

You might want to mention that you don't want your crews to take money from elderly people in Sherwood Forest,

Judi Dench

Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.

Richard Armour

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

Helen Thomas

Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond which the elderly, the sick, the powerless do not starve or lack for medicine or shelter.

Regina Brett

While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.

Mark Levin

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.

Holbrook Jackson

Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.

Jonathan Sacks

Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.

Satish Kumar

These are elderly people and the savings really means a lot to them. They are very happy and relieved that they can save money.

The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

George Will

The elderly are being subsidized to an astonishing degree.

Robert A. Heinlein

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.

Laura Schlessinger

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.

Peter O'Toole

He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.

Henry A. Kissinger

The elderly are useless eaters.

John Cheever

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.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.

Paul Krugman

Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.

John Cusack

The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.

Pope Francis

Where the #‎ elderly are not honored, there is no future for the young.

Pope Francis

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

In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

Pope Francis

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?

Pope Francis

It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.