Elderly Empowerment Quotes

The number of old ladies who've beaten me up on TV is absolutely ridiculous.

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.

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?

My mother at the age of 65 decided she was going to run for mayor. She had never run for public office, and she decided she wanted to try and do some things for the community.

I'm old, not dead.

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.

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

Longevity in my family's been pretty good. And my grandparents were pretty spry at their age, so I figured I'd probably stay skinny and fairly agile. I used to do old men all the time in sketches. And there used to be an organization called the Gray Panthers. And they would send me, oh, terrible letters about making fun of old people. And I would just always say, "I'm playing the old person I intend to become!"

No elderly person should be like an “exile” in our families. The elderly are a treasure for our society.

The over-60s have to be seen less as receivers - of welfare, of help - or targeted consumers, and more as participants, both in our economy and our society.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes.

It feels like now I - you know, I'm almost 80 years old - I can sit back and retire, you know, and say, 'Look, our young people are taking over.' And that's great. That's what I'd like to see.

My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.

Aging people are underserved in this culture - big time. I want to stay healthy so I can serve that community and be a voice.

The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday soon, we may have a new class of very smart, very fast people - yesterday's disabled and elderly.

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.

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.