Lillian Gordy Carter Quotes

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 wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.

Our traditional way: take care of the old people.

There is a sort of indifference to the problem of old age. Indifference in the face of a revolution in longevity.

I have a great affinity for senior citizens.

In America, the old are neglected.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

Rise before the elderly.

A law providing for the payment of a pension of $50 per month to every needy person over sixty years of age who has lived in the State of California three years prior to the date of the coming into effect of the law.

I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

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.

I got a gerontology certificate a million years ago along with my law degree, so I've been interested in older people for many years. Some people grow up with a lot of kids around, but I just grew up with a lot of old people.

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

I think old people should just be old and go away.

Few promises are more sacred than the ones we make to older Americans.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.

The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

Ever since I was quite young, I was in St. John's Ambulance or the Red Cross; latterly, I've been involved in voluntary work with the mentally handicapped and Abbeyfield Old People's Homes.