Best 55 quotes in «old people quotes» category

I'm the one running the show, you petulant geezer.

It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church.

It is gracious to have old people full of vitality and endowed with wisdom in our society.

Lucas felt uncommonly depressed and careless. Drunkenness, in a man like August Hay, melts the restraints on cheerfulness. On the contrary with Lucas: he kept up courage consciously. Sap his mind, and the lid was lifted from a cesspool of muddy colors.

Mr. Landowsky was eighty-two and somehow his chest had shrunk over the years, and now he was forced to hike his pants up under his armpits. "Oi," he said. "This heat! I can't breathe. Somebody should do something." I assumed he was talking about God. "That weatherman on the morning news. He should be shot. How can I go out in weather like this? And then when it gets so hot they keep the supermarkets too cold. Hot, cold. Hot, cold. It gives me the runs." I was glad I owned a gun, because when I got as old as Mr. Landowsky I was going to eat a bullet. The first time I got the runs in the supermarket, that was it. BANG! It would all be over.

Myśli te zaprawione były pewną goryczą ludzi starych, którzy więcej cierpią nad utratą rzeczy dawnych, niż cieszą się z nadejścia nowych.

She lived with the doctor on Via Po, in a gloomy, dark apartment, barely warmed in winter by just a small Franklin stove, and she no longer threw out anything, because everything might eventually come in handy: not even the cheese rinds or the foil on chocolates, with which she made silver balls to be sent to missions to “free a little black boy.

So long as our parents are alive, we are children. Then we become childish.

Take care of the elderly people.

It’s just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they’d go insane in a world too different from the one they knew.

Monsieur, please stay back. You are old and frail, and I would not have you hurt in this clash.

Old age had distilled her down to her essence.

Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!

Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones.

Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!

Older people sometimes talk about the good old days when life was better. In fact, they talk nostalgically about their own youth that was irretrievably gone. The past century has made enormous progress in all fields. The standard of living, work environment, health care quality and mobility, and the availability of cultural programs, recreational activities and information – all that clearly speaks in favor of nowadays.

She looked at his face. So old and wrinkled. So beautiful and just right.

Sometimes you've gotta humor the old people.

That's the funny thing about old people: they never seem in a hurry. I think old people have figured out that being five minutes late really doesn't matter much.

The adult age begins with the blessed single strand of a grey hair.

The glory of age is beauty of gray hair.

The good thing about being old is not being young.

Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe only because, in a way, him chasing a spool was like old people having their slow and careful version of sex - you might not want to watch it , you who are young and convinced that, when it comes to old age, an exception will be made in your case, but they still want to do it.

The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.

THE BEST people are the good old wrinkled people with a sparkle in their eye, a wink when you walk by or a toothless smile saying you are doing just fine ...

The glory of the age is beauty of grayhair.

The paradox of life; I wish to have healthy long life. But no one wants to show the glory of the gray hair.

The paradox of life; everyone desire a fuller life. But no one wishes to increase in age.

Try to imagine its good old days whenever you see a ruin and try to do the same whenever you see an old person!

There’s no accounting for the opinions of old ladies. They think everyone is cute.

Watu wa zamani katika Agano la Kale walikuwa wakiabudu miungu iliyotengenezwa kwa mawe na vinyago. Miungu hiyo haikuwa na chochote ndani mbali na kutengenezwa kwa akili na fikira za kibinadamu. Hii ilikuwa ni kinyume cha ukweli wa Kibiblia kwamba Mungu alimuumba mtu kwa mfano wake, lakini si mtu aliyejaa dhambi kumtengeneza Mungu kwa mfano wake. Kuabudu miungu mingine ni dhambi kubwa. Tii Amri Kumi za Mungu; hasa ya kwanza, ya pili na ya tatu.

Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.

You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like thing to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time.

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

They're like children, really. Only children are far more logical which makes it difficult sometimes with them. But these people are illogical, they want to be reassured by your telling them what they want to believe. Then they're quite happy again for a bit.

...too often it's only children and old people who speak the truth. You just have to slow down and listen.

We’re going down to the Margarita Grill to smell the lobster, then we’re going to watch the sunrise, and in between we’ll probably have hot, unsafe animal sex.

What I'm going to do is pry every stinking tag off these f.ing chairs and make a f.ing collar and throw that cat right in Connor's puked-up face. Pale turd.

You are as young as you think.

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

Age is only a number. Keep an active life.

Age is glory.

I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.

BABARIC!

Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people.

BARBARIC!

Appeal with respect to elderly people as you would to the members of your own family.

Santoliquido: – Ah, Furlan, per sicurezza le farò mettere un agente in borghese di guardia a casa sua, mi dicono che ci vive anche sua madre. Drago: – Basta che mia madre non si accorga di nulla. Santoliquido: – Potrebbe spaventarsi, capisco. Drago: – No, dottore, potrebbe spaventare l’agente, non la conosce.

Blessed are the elderly men and women.

Blessed is the society that has oldies.