Elderly Quotes

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

  Bill Nighy

  Way, Cases, Treated

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• A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Roots, Long, People

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.131, Pan Macmillan

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• Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Birthday, Beautiful, Art

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• We are always the same age inside.

  Gertrude Stein

  Happy Birthday, Confidence, Positive Thinking

  "The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.

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• Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die.

  Mel Brooks

  Running, Song, Oxygen

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• It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Children, Twilight

  Speech at dedication of Hubert H. Humphrey Building,Washington, D.C., 1 Nov. 1977

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• What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

  Bernie Sanders

  Children, Giving, Care

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

  Pope Francis

  Treasure, Our Society, Should

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• How about no income tax at all on people over 65? People would continue working, remain healthier, not be an economic and social drain on society. Then the elderly would also have more disposable income to help charitable activities.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, People, Income

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• Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.

  Mark Foley

  Government, People, Achievement

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• Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

  Lillian Gordy Carter

  Women, Memorable, Age

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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

  Kids, People, Looks

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• I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

  Maggie Smith

  Thinking, People, Film

  "Quartet - Dame Maggie Smith interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 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.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Organization, Volunteer, Sick

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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

  Coffee, Middle, Cases

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• 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.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Cost, Care, Disability

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• Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Writing, People, Gentleman

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

  Maggie Kuhn

  Community, Healthy, Care

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• The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.

  Jay Leno

  Fall, Wine, Beer

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• If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Inspirational, Business, Science

  In New Yorker 9 Aug. 1969

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• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  Barbra Streisand

  Exercise, Hype, Ties

  Barbra Streisand's Letter to Democrats, www.foxnews.com. April 2, 2001.

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• 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.

  Rene Cassin

  Children, Military, Doctors

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• 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.

  Maggie Smith

  Fool, Maggie, Tolerate

  "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

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• Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Hate, People, Atheism

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• An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Gentleman, Theatre

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.182

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