Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.