Pope Francis Quotes

Our traditional way: take care of the old people.

I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes.

Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.

Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.

For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

White people don't seem to have many Elders. They do have a lot of oldsters.

I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.

Sure, I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

Somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them.

I have a great affinity for senior citizens.

I came back from Standing Rock, and one of the things that struck me was their respect for elders. It was something that I felt like I needed to work on in my life.

Old people have a much better time in India because they're respected.

In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

We must appreciate the dignity of life in all its seasons, even the path of the elderly in the twilight of their years, to work toward the day when every child, born and unborn, is welcomed to life and protected by law.

Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?

The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

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 old are in a second childhood.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.