Elderly Quotes - Page 11

• Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that he speak to her, Jon cast about for some sort of polite conversation pertinent to the occasion. “I hate funerals, don’t you?” He said. “I rather like them,” she said smugly. “At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

  Judith McNaught

  Hate, Funeral, Honor

  Judith McNaught (2003). “Paradise”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Self, Young, Former

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.7, e-artnow

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• Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that isn't stained. I sit for hours in a dark-room feeling as if I were a very elderly Faust at some dreadful incantation, and come out of it, blinding at the light, like a Bastille prisoner. And yet I am not successful!

  Bret Harte

  Teaching, Writing, Successful

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• Always take the time to show compassion for those less fortunate, and there are many. Take the time to help a young child cross the street, or to carry a bag of groceries for an elderly lady. And every now and then, look up into that big, beautiful, blue sky and admit that there are things in this world more wondrous that yourself.

  Jack Lambert

  Beautiful, Children, Compassion

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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

  Medical Bills, Want, Republican

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• He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.

  Peter O'Toole

  Brad, Scoundrels, Young

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• Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters and the plot becomes a part of their life. She got to enjoy the personal side of the players. They were her kids. The Braves were her family.

  Bob Hope

  Baseball, Character, Kids

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• The one good thing to be said about announcing yourself as a writer in the colonial Canadian fifties is that nobody told me I couldn't do it because I was a girl. They simply found the entire proposition ridiculous. Writers were dead and English, or else extremely elderly and American; they were not sixteen years old and Canadian.

  Margaret Atwood

  Girl, Years, Sixteen

  "Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered at Hay on Wye. Wales, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• From the peak of Chimborazo (volcano) to the Pacific coast, from the Amazon rainforest to the Galapagos Islands, may you never lose the ability to thank God for what he has done and is doing for you, may you never lose the ability to protect what is small and simple, to care for your children and your elderly, to have confidence in the young, and to be constantly struck by the nobility of your people and the singular beauty of your country.

  Pope Francis

  Confidence, Country, Children

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• There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still. As long as a child needs help, as long as people are not free, there will be work to do. As long as an elderly person is attacked or in need of support, there is work to do. As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.

  Rosa Parks

  Children, Long, People

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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• The Europeans have lots of data on the use of adjuvanted flu vaccine in the elderly, but I dont think anybody has really good data on adjuvants in children.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Children, Thinking, Flu Vaccine

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• I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Gentleman, Atheism

  Henrik Ibsen (1960). “The Oxford Ibsen: An enemy of the people. The wild duck. Rosmersholm”

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• Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto.

  George Weigel

  Italian, Saint, Shrines

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness and they're absolutely cured and they say, now I know how to live my life. I've seen death. That happened to me when I was 19. It was a terrible, terrifying thing. And I live my life like those people decided to do when they were old. So, since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

  Michael Caine

  Fun, Army, Korea

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.

  Mindy Kaling

  Hard Work, People, Childhood

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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• When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly person, Benjamin Button was, in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel and in the film starring Brad Pitt, he dies as a newborn child. Michael Jackson's childhood was one of enormous, prodigious production.He was a child prodigy, he was a wunderkind.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Children, Writing, Newborn Child

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What the hell do doctors know about exercise? Most of them know zero. You gotta push elderly people to failure like anybody else. Then the body responds.

  Jack LaLanne

  Zero, Exercise, Doctors

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• It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.

  Margaret Laurence

  Party, Believe, Struggle

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• We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance

  Pope Francis

  Baby, Sleep, Dying

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• Wine is a sign of happiness, love and plenty, how many of our adolescents and young people sense that these are no longer found in their homes? How many women, sad and lonely, wonder when love left, when it slipped away from their lives? How many elderly people feel left out of family celebrations, cast aside and longing each day for a little love?

  Pope Francis

  Love, Happiness, Lonely

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• The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor-apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly-man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Book, Men, Departure

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852). “The Blithedale Romance”, p.9

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• Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!

  Dodie Smith

  Expression, Age, Ugh

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• A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim aspect, known by the name and title of Doctor Grimshawe, whose household consisted of a remarkably pretty and vivacious boy, and a perfect rosebud of a girl, two or three years younger than he, and an old maid of all work, of strangely mixed breed, crusty in temper and wonderfully sluttish in attire.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Girl, Book, Boys

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.1228, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Jeff Stilson

  Couple, Men, Together

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• When Ive ridden in parades, I always throw to the kids, the elderly and anyone who is smiling and having a great time. I try to make eye contact with the person. If you catch a ton and a kid nearby hasnt caught much, share.

  Bryan Batt

  Kids, Eye, Trying

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