#elderly

She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#elderly #youth #age

I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#desert #elderly #mirage #age

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

#elderly #old #seniors #age

But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible. ↗

— Jack Dee

#been #bible #brought #church #education

This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#citizens #created #cutting #elderly #fortunate

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#benefit #care #disaster #elderly #funding

Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years. ↗

— Geddy Lee

#great #great way #production #projects #rock

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#happens #ignorant #magistrate #obscenity #shock

From warm meals, to daily exercise, to healthcare; one can't help but wonder how our society would be different if tended to the elderly as we do to our imprisoned. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#exercise #healthcare #jail #means #prisoners

Or [take] the old cripple worried about choking on his vitamins or tripping if he tries to hobble over that wide crack in the sidewalk. He won’t be bound by mere experience - he renounces it all together as something confusing; the very moment it occurs, it’s forgotten entirely. The young today don’t really live. They take no pills to give their day structure… ↗

— Benson Bruno

#experience #funny #living-life-to-the-full #experience