Quotes by Elderly In Holland, pensions were cut. The public health services for elderly people were cut. Enormous asocial tough measures. And at the same time people saw while the government has these enormous austerity measures, that the government spent billions of euros on asylum seekers who really weren't asylum seekers but migrants looking for a better life. Geert Wilders elderly cutting government 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 elderly saint italian A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker. "Grammy's here!" he shouts. He puts some MacAttack Mac&Cheese in the microwave and dons headphones and takes out a video game so he won't be bored during the forty seconds it takes his lunch to cook. A truck comes around the corner and hits Grammy, sending her flying over the roof into the backyard, where luckily she lands on a trampoline. Unluckily, she bounces back over the roof, into the front yard, landing on a rosebush. George Saunders elderly land games In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women. Ginny Brown-Waite elderly income women 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 elderly self young 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 elderly wise men We must appreciate the dignity of life in all its seasons, even the path of the elderly in the twilight of their years, to work toward the day when every child, born and unborn, is welcomed to life and protected by law. George W. Bush elderly twilight children In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists. H. G. Wells elderly men book A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man. Gilbert K. Chesterton elderly military men Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond which the elderly, the sick, the powerless do not starve or lack for medicine or shelter. Helen Thomas elderly medicine sick The elderly are useless eaters. Henry A. Kissinger elderly useless 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 elderly gentleman lying Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different. Herbert Gold elderly different age Under the notion that unregulated market-driven values and relations should shape every domain of human life, the business model of governance has eviscerated any viable notion of social responsibility while furthering the criminalization of social problems and cutbacks in basic social services, especially for the poor, young people and the elderly. Henry Giroux elderly responsibility people Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old! Herman Melville immortal elderly youth Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him. Holbrook Jackson elderly advice trying From my observation, the older you get, the more you like the word cozy. Holly Goldberg Sloan elderly grandparent kids The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly. Hubert H. Humphrey elderly dawn children The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality of a nation. Hubert H. Humphrey elderly twilight children When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion - the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right. Isaac Asimov elderly science ideas «1234567891011»