Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Burr

I actually had the urge to elbow an elderly lady today...

We have victims from around the country, as well as from outside the country. They (scam artists) promise the world, but can never deliver. They victimize communities; they victimize families and the elderly in particular,

Sandra Tsing Loh

I am a member of the 'sandwich' generation, that group that must simultaneously care for elderly parents and support children.

Most elderly are likely to pay from HK$10,300 up to HK$30,000.

Kim Williams

I was helping the rest of the folks in the neighborhood to evacuate some of the elderly and the handicapped, and we got separated.

Juan Vargas

You know who's going to get hurt? It's the elderly woman who has never had a claim, never done anything wrong, and her rates are going to go up by 10 percent, and that's not right.

Basically, all the forces that can enlarge the retired elderly population are in overdrive. The forces that would expand the younger (and working) population paying for Social Security and Medicare taxes are in reverse. The result is a kind of perfect demographic storm,

He is popular, he has been around a long time, he is elderly and he is a gentleman. I think people will just wait until he has decided.

If this really has a physiological role in normal elderly people then it's a huge deal.

Dick Thompson

We still urge the elderly and other high-risk groups to be vaccinated.

What about those who help growth indirectly, those who stay at home and look after others - mothers, carers of elderly parents or sick relatives who save the state millions of pounds annually. What is their worth? How is their value to be determined?

Cal Thomas

As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

Bill Nighy

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

Arthur C. Clarke

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.

Edmund Wilson

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

Bertrand Russell

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Nancy Gibbs

You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.

People may have temporary lapses from the sleeping pills. They may have motor and coordination (problems). Sometimes, elderly patients may fall at night.

George Carey

I see it as an elderly lady, who mutters away to herself in a corner, ignored most of the time.

John Cole

I think we were lucky, because there were some big trees down on structures, including a mobile home where an elderly lady was inside.

E. B. White

Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject.

Michael Butler

She was to the point where she was having convulsions. They had elderly people not getting their (medicine). They had diabetics not getting their insulin. It was every man for himself.

Deborah Smith

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.

Sharon Cooper

Targeting elderly people is unacceptable and this is being looked into.

Cameron Diaz

They are our storytellers - our elderly are meant to be those who share the secrets of wisdom and knowledge and life with our youth,

Andrew O'Hagan

I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say, in an office full of elderly people who looked after blind ex-servicemen.

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.

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.