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Tag Name "Elderly" (158)

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A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.
Donnie Wahlberg
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.
Martha Beck
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Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.
Herbert Gold
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The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly.
Juan Williams
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The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.
John Cusack
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Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!
Dodie Smith
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I am not in love with you, she said. It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.
Loretta Chase
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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.
Helen Thomas
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A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.
Pope Francis
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What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.
Umberto Eco
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Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
Claude Pepper
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Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.
Nachman of Breslov
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After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.
Tony Campolo
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People who watch morning television are elderly, infirm or emotionally immature.
Roy Hattersley
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On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to know. On the expressways, middle management men pose without grace behind their wheels as they flee city and job.
Studs Terkel
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The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.
Pope Francis
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Human life, the person is no longer perceived as a primary value to be respected and protected, especially if poor or disabled, if not yet useful - such as the unborn child - or no longer needed - such as the elderly.
Pope Francis
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I had the pleasure of listening to Rickie Lee Jones' Flying Cowboys album on audio cassette, which had just come out at that time because I am an elderly man.
John Hodgman
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as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell
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In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.
Ginny Brown-Waite
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Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn’t fit this description.
Joni Eareckson Tada
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But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
Jack Dee
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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.
Mark Levin
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