Elderly Quotes - Page 4

• Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Twenties, Three

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• From watching Lester (Flatt), I learned that it's important to be loyal to the people who made you and bought your music. He called me up to the front of the (tour) bus on the very first trip I went on with him. Lester pointed out two elderly people who were walking towards the but. He said, 'Those two people have been coming to see me since the mid 40's. That's what a country fan is all about.'

  Marty Stuart

  Country, Two, People

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• Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.

  Jesse Helms

  Children, School, Learning

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• Also, I learned whether you are gay, bisexual, it doesn't matter, you know... because, at the end of the day, they're both gross. But mostly, I learned that elderly black women are wise beyond their years... but younger black women are prostitutes.

  Sarah Silverman

  Wise, Gay, Bisexual

  "The Sarah Silverman Program", February 1, 2007 - April 15, 2010.

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• When I was editor of the Erotic Review I fielded endless phone calls from elderly readers who thought I might like to pop round in my spare time and thrash them

  Rowan Pelling

  Phones, Editors, Erotic

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• For us, warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who can not provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity.

  Sitting Bull

  Children, Fighting, Warrior

  "Follow the Money Deep Underground" by Shadi Rahimi, www.motherjones.com. December 2, 2008.

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• There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Disappointment, Errors, Expression

  "The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. II, (1819; 1844; 1859).

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• I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.

  Jeff Dunham

  Christian, Jobs, Believe

  "Comedian Defends 'Achmed the Dead Terrorist' Puppet Routine Against South African Ban" by Joshua Rhett Miller, www.foxnews.com. October 2, 2008.

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• Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs care.

  Michael Moore

  Sick, Parent, Drug

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• People, workers, the elderly, all these people I see with sympathy and affection. These are the people who have fought the battle of life and who now and then show the hard work and the frustration ...It's all about human activity, it's truth, and we all get there.

  Duane Hanson

  Hard Work, Frustration, People

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• I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Husband, Selfish

  "Maya Angelou Opens Women’s Health And Wellness Center, Calls Disparities ‘Embarrassing’" by Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wise, Men, People

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• All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hash, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

  John Donne

  Running, Kings, Years

  John Donne (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• We really can't boil a man's life down to seasonal divisions of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Seasons cycle perennially, and we enjoy them because they recur. We should understand a man's life this way too. An elderly person may yet see new springs and summers. On the other hand, some young people never escape winter. Others become ensnared by their own private autumns.

  Hideo Kojima

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

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• Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.

  Judi Dench

  People, Welcome, Concerned

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• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Lost Youth

  New York Times, 1974.

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• From my observation, the older you get, the more you like the word cozy.
  That's why most of the elderly wear pants with elastic waistbands. If they wear pants at all. This may explain why grandparents are in love with buying grand kids pajamas and bathrobes.

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Kids, Grandparent, Cozy

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.27, Penguin

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• When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Perhaps the adjective 'elderly' requires definition. In physics, mathematics, and astronautics it means over thirty; in the other disciplines, senile decay is sometimes postponed to the forties. There are, of course, glorious exceptions; but as every researcher just out of college knows, scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory!

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Mean, College, Discipline

  Profiles of the Future ch. 2 (1962).

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• 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.

  Sarah Ferguson

  Age, Enough, Conventional Wisdom

  Sarah Ferguson (2010). “What I Know Now: Simple Lessons Learned the Hard Way”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• You've read newspaper stories about elderly widows who die and leave their entire estates to their pet cats, right? Well, your cat reads those stories too, and has spent most of its skulking, devious little life dreaming about inheriting all your money.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Dream, Humor

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.56, Rodale

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• Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Race, Faces

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.432

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• Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.

  M. R. James

  Views, Sound, Doctrine

  M.r. James (2016). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.52, M.r. James

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• Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Reality, People

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• In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.

  Louise Penny

  Winter, Earth, Hungry

  Louise Penny (2011). “Bury Your Dead: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.141, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Memories, Abuse

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