Elderly And Aging Quotes & Sayings

I've never
stopped wanting to cross
the equator, or touch an elk's
horns, or sing Tosca or screw
James Dean in a field of wheat.
To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong:
I'll never be through with my life. — Rita Dove

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. — George Bernard Shaw

Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Students get the message bout what adults want. When 4th graders in a variety of classroomswere asked what their teachers most wanted them to do, they didn't say, "Ask thoughtful questions" or "Make responsible decisions" or Help others." They said, "Be quiet, don't fool around, and get our work done on time. — Alfie Kohn

Reverse your thinking. Positivity is psychologically rewarding. — Dan Abnett

The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another - it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time. — John Scalzi

Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good! — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

Refire - an attitude of embracing the years ahead with enthusiasm rather than apathy. — Morton Shaevitz

The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Because when you've been around forever, you have to find something outside yourself to believe in or go mad. I believe in humanity. I believe in you. — Tellulah Darling

The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another. — Imelda Staunton

Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left. — Robert A. Heinlein

To a man and woman, all of her elderly patients had been surprised to be old - which Avery privately regarded as a serious failure to pay attention. — Lionel Shriver

Gerontologists studying the aging process find increasing evidence that most of us will age with a fair degree of success. There's far less institutionalization and disability than one might have guessed. While the size of social networks shrink with age, the quality of the relationships improves. There are types of cognitive skills that improve in old age (these are related to social intelligence and to making good strategic use of facts, rather than merely remembering them easily). The average elderly individual thinks his or her health is above average, and takes pleasure from that. And most important, the average level of happiness increases in old age; fewer negative emotions occur and, when they do, they don't persist as long. Connected to this, brain-imaging studies show that negative images have less of an impact, and positive images have more of an impact on brain metabolism in older people, as compared to young. — Robert M. Sapolsky

As the technology is developed, autonomous driving could provide driving opportunities for the physically challenged or enable the elderly to continue driving longer. This will be vital as many nations experience an aging population. — William Clay Ford Jr.

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

Tom got to rattling off the pranks he and his school boy buddies pulled ... and what I saw wasn't an old man gone wistful but rather an old man still resonating to the glee of a young heart. — Michael Perry

These wrinkles are the hands of time,
The journeys I've been on
They've seen me through a thousand days,
And ev'ry victory won

These fragile hands, With exposed bones,
Are not a fearful sight
But rather, they, my faithful partners,
Rocked babies through the night

These eyes are weak, They see much less,
Than yours they've seen much more
They've guided me through birth, through death,
Through grief, through hurt, through war

These ears can hear so very little,
Yet they've learned to listen much
They perk up not for gossip now,
But for a heart to touch

Those younger often look my way,
With pity looks to give
Yet this old body doesn't mean I am dying,
But rather, that I have lived — Emily Nelson

You don't have to spend much time with the elderly or those with terminal illness to see how often medicine fails the people it is supposed to help. The waning days of our lives are given over to treatments that addle our brains and sap our bodies for a sliver's chance of benefit. They are spent in institutions - nursing homes and intensive care units - where regimented, anonymous routines cut us off from all the things that matter to us in life. Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need. — Atul Gawande

Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it. — Simon Sinek

From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly. — Carrie Brownstein