Quotes about Elderly
I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
- Oscar Wilde
The happiest Christian homes I know are those given to hospitality, where neighbors feel at home, where young people are welcome, where the elderly are respected, where children are loved.
- Billy Graham
God can use the words of a teenager, the prayer of a senior citizen, or the candid remark of a child to convict you of the need to make changes in your life.
- Henry Blackaby
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. (moby dick chap 29 p123)
- Herman Melville
The door of Reverend Verringer's impressive manse is opened by an elderly female with a face like a pine plank; the Reverend is unmarried, and has need of an irreproachable housekeeper. Simon is ushered into the library. It is so self-consciously the right sort of library that he has an urge to set fire to it.
- Margaret Atwood
Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
- Bill Gates
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked THROUGH them for so
- Mark Twain
I read a story about an old gentlemen who was known for his godly life. Someone asked him one day, "What do you do when you are tempted, old man?" He replied, "I just look up to Heaven and say, 'Lord, your property is in danger.'
- Greg Laurie
Despise not thy mother when she is old.
- Anonymous
I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes.
- Ricky Gervais
Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.
- Dennis Prager