Ruby Dee Quotes

The elderly of the baby boomer generation will not put up with the traditional discrimination against the elderly. They have the demographic and they have the dollars.

I'm an older generation.

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.

My parents are retired, basically.

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

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.

In retirement there are no ranks...we are all ‘have-beens’ together:

No American should ever have to spend his golden years at the mercy of insurance companies.

Books are for adults; revolution is for the young.

It has had a tremendous impact on my life, more than on the life of most Prize winners, because I was in an unusual situation. I was unemployed at the time. I was in good health, but I had reached the age of 66 and beginning to get social security, but I didn't have much of that. I had many years of unemployment before me.

When you get on the back side of your 60s, most people aren't working.

I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I'll take, objecting to the stigmatization of ageing in so many modern societies.

I'm too old and too rich to do any more stunts.

Yeah, if anyone tries to tell you 60 is the new 40... don't believe them.

As you decline in years, you decline in the marketplace.

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

You're too old to still be playing. I'll buy you a rocker you can sit in.

Send me the money and let the younger guys have the fame.

I retired at 35 in '98 and thought, 'There's only one place to go, and that's downward.' I retired at a good level. I was at peace after 15 years - I was lucky to play that long.

I am of that '60s generation, and for people of my age, that phrase 'change the world' has a real resonance.

The arrogant view that young people don't count because they don't vote has thankfully been smashed for ever.