Top 427 Elderly Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
My dad's a doctor. So when we were little, at our family Christmases, we'd always have a couple of his elderly patients over for lunch.
Across society, the lion's share of caring responsibility - whether for children or elderly relatives - still falls on women.
My priorities are always the children and the elderly when it comes to our healthcare system, as both groups are unable to help themselves.
Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies.
Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.
In the high-income English-speaking world, the elderly get treated very well indeed.
I never leave a dog alone in a car on a hot day. I make sure it's with an elderly person holding a baby.
In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.
I've always said when age or infirmity gets the better of me, I'm off to whichever civilised country lets the elderly die with dignity.
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.
If people start to buy the idea that machines are great companions for the elderly or for children, as they increasingly seem to do, we are really playing with fire.
At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.
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.
We're all born, and if you're going to live to be elderly, you'll have gone through a life journey different than anyone else's. It's unique to you, but you'll have some common themes.
Our society has a mentality that elderly people pass on their wealth to their son or immediate relatives, and I think we all do it. It's a part of nature and is an exaggerated topic.
A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and hope.
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.
Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.
It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.
It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often the last we think about.
Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.
We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance
Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
Films are deprived of the conventional elderly figures now. They are more into yo moms and dads.
The people who depend on an antenna are often those who are underprivileged - the elderly and the disadvantaged who can't afford a $200-a-month cable bill.
Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.
I am a member of the 'sandwich' generation, that group that must simultaneously care for elderly parents and support children.
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.
A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.
He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.
Women are more verbal than men. That's why when you see an elderly couple together, it's always the man who has the hearing aid.
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.
Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker ... the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this.
The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.
It's distressing to see anyone in the community struggle to access public transport - whether they're elderly, customers with a disability or families with prams.
When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.
I'm an elderly gentleman. I haven't been in a fight involving bodily contact in 60 years. Look, I fall trying to put on my underwear in the morning.
As the nation's elderly population grows, dozens of industries have tried to harness the political might of older Americans for corporate goals.
We must continually work to obtain and preserve the right to vote and future votes of babies in the womb, their parents, the sick, the elderly, the poor, all Americans.
A universal basic income would be the best way to give everyone the opportunity to do more unpaid but incredibly important work, such as caring for children and the elderly.
Elderly people are like heat-seeking missiles for people who really have an interest in listening.
An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.
I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working.
Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
It's clear that means testing can direct limited resources to the elderly in need and achieve better results in poverty alleviation.
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.
Elderly people, I have found, when they're being honest, are also scumbags, and enjoy a little prurient humour as well.
If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.
The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal.
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.
It is not impossible to succeed as a social democracy, where business and free enterprise thrive, and not abandon the disenfranchised, poor, sick, and elderly.
Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.
I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
We have a responsibility to protect public housing residents from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke, especially the elderly and children who suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases.
The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly.
And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
