Senior Citizen Quotes - Page 2

• One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Funny, Self, Understanding

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• Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Funny, Beautiful

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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  Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

  Coco Chanel

  Funny, Birthday, Beauty

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• Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Funny, Age, Toil

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 44

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• The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

  Eugene O'Neill

  Funny, Children, Kissing

  1927 Tiberius. Lazarus Laughed, act 4, sc.1.

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• Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.

  Carol Leifer

  Senior, Retirement, Time Flies

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• You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Birthday, Witty

  "Fictional character: Pearl". "Interiors", www.imdb.com. 1978.

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• Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Senior, Long, People

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• Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Forever, Eulogy

  From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)

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• Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations

  George Santayana

  Funny, Wisdom, Long

  George Santayana, James Seaton (2014). “Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy and Character and Opinion in the United States: And Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.143, Yale University Press

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• People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways - I'm still making movies, and I'm a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price.

  George Burns

  Senior, Two, People

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• People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

  J. K. Rowling

  Senior, Writing, Years

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• If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

  Kurt Loder

  Senior, Target Audience, Issues

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• All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens

  Steve King

  Senior, Citizens, Guarantees

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• Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.

  Bill Frist

  Senior, Long, Support

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• It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.

  Vic Snyder

  Senior, Important, Age

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• Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Funny, Yoga, Exercise

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• I had to wait 110 years to become famous. I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible.

  Jeanne Calment

  Funny, Years, Long

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• My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.

  Joseph Bologna

  Senior, Comedian, Citizens

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• This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon their skill and sagacityand the opportunity to provide the respect and recognition they have earned. It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years to lifeour objective must also be to add new life to those years.

  John F. Kennedy

  Senior, New Year, Opportunity

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.189, Best Books on

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• Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.

  Thom Yorke

  Senior, Fun, Hate

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• Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.

  Jill Lepore

  Senior, Moving, Age

  "Baby Talk" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. June 29, 2009.

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• I think a lot of people don't understand the makeup of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program population, of the food stamp population, 80 percent senior citizens, people with disabilities, children, and those who are actually in the work force working. The folks who are not - who are able-bodied, who are adults, who don't have dependents, there's a desire to make sure that they get to work and that they aren't basically gaming the system. But the reality is, they have a responsibility to either be involved in work or education, or they're limited in terms of their benefits.

  Tom Vilsack

  Senior, Children, Responsibility

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it.

  Shelley Berkley

  Senior, Kids, Citizens

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• Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from.

  Andrew Shue

  Senior, Soccer, School

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