#elder

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#beautiful #being #care #certain #copenhagen

But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#did #dream #elder #get #get married

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter. ↗

— Burton Richter

#born #child #elder #fanny #i

It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty. ↗

— James Roosevelt

#been #citizens #dedicated #elderly #our

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#came #elderly #expense #obamacare #play

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#been #elderly #films #i #made

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#elderly #fools #good #i #i am

He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at our sleeve to let him tell his tale of what really happened. ↗

— Ronald Steel

#become #certainly #considerable #credentials #elder

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#age #around #eight #elderly #expectancy

A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own. ↗

— Beth Revis (Across The Universe)

#elder #leadership #strength #leadership