Elderly Quotes - Page 6

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

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

At the toughest times I recalled how the children and the elderly looked at me with trustful eyes. Your faith has given me strength.

Yes, older drivers are more likely to injure themselves and others when they get behind the wheel. But if you take that away, that is really the last lifeline a lot of elderly people have.

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.

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

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

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

There are many rules for the elderly in the Highway Code. I have one too, and here it is: get a bloody move on.

We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful results. . . . The British State considers it the duty of an Englishman to kill people who are not English whenever a collection of elderly gentlemen in Westminster tells him to do so. . . . Church and State are placable enemies of both intelligence and virtue.

At a time of massive inequality, I think we can raise substantial sums of revenue to address the needs of working families, the elderly, and the children, by asking those people who are doing phenomenally well to start paying their fair share.

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.

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.

Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies.

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.

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

Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.

The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.

Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject.

...it's as empty as a merchant's soul. Sorry, Kheldar, it's just an old expression." "That's all right, Beldin," Silk forgave him grandly. "These little slips of the tongue are common in the very elderly.

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved.