Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Pope Francis

No elderly person should be like an “exile” in our families. The elderly are a treasure for our society.

Umberto Eco

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

Maggie Kuhn

A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and hope.

Maggie Smith

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

Yoweri Museveni

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.

Winston Churchill

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.

Sarah Ferguson

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.

Tucker Carlson

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.