#old people

I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh. ↗

— Allan Carr

#i #laugh #like #makes #me

Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#certain #certain point #go #healthy #hold

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#body #causes #change #changed #changes

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#fact #going #i #more #old

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#babies #being #cannot #compassionate #days

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal. ↗

— Amy Grant

#cheer #curious #down #human #human nature

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? ↗

— Bell Hooks

#always #believe #capacity #compassion #enough

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical. ↗

— Rex Hunt

#birth #critical #death #fantastic #fish

When I was a kid, there was no distinction between a movie about old people or young people. It was either funny or not. It was either entertaining or not. It was either exciting or not. It was either thrilling or not. ↗

— Joseph Bologna

#between #distinction #either #entertaining #exciting

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories. ↗

— George Carlin

#disease #got #i #i think #interesting