Romany Malco Quotes

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.

My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.

When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson Jude calls me Glamma and not Granny.

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.

There was a group of six women in my household. My mom, aunts and grandma. I watched them in the kitchen.

Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.

Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

My mother passed away of complications of dementia. As you get older, it really makes you realize how many people are touched by this disease.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

I love talking with elderly people.

My mother was a very quiet woman and people say that she didn't get much of a chance to talk because my grandmother and I talked so much.

You just can't move back with your mom at 64. It just doesn't quite work.

A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

You know you're old when your family talk about you in front of you. What are we going to do with Pop? We have company tonight.

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

One spares old people just as one spares children.

Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

Old age is life's parody.

We all age. You shouldn't discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that you might not deal with for another 45 years doesn't mean you won't like it.

Every house needs a grandmother in it.