Old People Quotes

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

It doesn’t matter how old people are. It matters if they love each other and have fun with each other. It has nothing to do with age. To get old is a mental disease. Everything is in the head.

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I’ve been impressed by some wonderful old people.

There’s one more terrifying fact about old people: I’m going to be one soon.

We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages – people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.

When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It’s the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don’t learn anything about the world.

When you are part of a massive TV show like Strictly,’ it’s not just about the professional dancers and celebrities taking part, there could be young or old people out there who are watching and they might also be inspired to take up dancing, and I find that so special.

I have this concept that I will create a creche for old people. Yes, a creche, how when you go to work you drop kids to their creche and there they mingle with other kids and at the same time are in safe hands and you know they have been looked after.

I think it’s strange when people my age and younger get surgery. Somebody‘s got to play old people.

I’m not making music for old people or young people.

In Hiroshima, bombed Aug. 6, 1945, no warning was given of the air attack, and thus no escape was possible for the mostly women, children and old people who fell victim.

You know, ‘The Golden Girls’ was a very unusual show to start on. I was young, and it was a show about old people, and it was a very traditional show, but it was also an amazing training ground for a joke-writer. It forced me to learn those skills.

I’m one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.

Kids are born into the situation they’re born into, and obviously, they have no control over that. And we, as adults, it’s up to us to take care of kids – that’s part of your moral responsibility. I always tell people, ‘There’s two groups we should take care of – old people and young people.’

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven‘t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and find out they haven’t even been asleep; and when old people are asleep, they try to wake up, and they can’t… not for the longest time.

We have to start creating more material that gives a platform for people of colour, for women, for old people and young people alike to be able to showcase their talent. It’s much bigger than a black or white thing.

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

We filed a constitutional rights lawsuit on my reservation, and I had to go out and interview all these old people. And I found that many of the old people on my reservation didn’t know who was president. That kind of pointed out to me the irrelevance at times of who is in Washington.

I just really love hanging out with really old people. They’re the best dinner dates you could ever have. All that life experience and understanding.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

I hate how old people get in my way when I’m swimming. You’re trying to get into the zone and normally, if there’s someone faster than you, you get out of the way, but old people don’t; they’re like, you can go round me. I give a little tut when I pass them.

I see all these old people who don’t have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say ‘retired‘ because that’s such a finality that I don’t want to be part of my life. I’ll work until they throw me in a box.

I think Facebook is more for old people and, like, adults. My parents use Facebook. I honestly have never been on Facebook.

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that’s how I speak.

I don’t care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

There’s a convention in English stuff that if something is more than 100 years old, people have to say ‘do not’ instead of ‘don’t. They have to say ‘will not’ instead of ‘won’t.’ People are speaking in a way that is not accessible or normal. And people didn’t ever speak like that.

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

We’re like old people now playing music. I’m so glad we stuck it out because it’s a lot better. I used to feel kind of anxious. Now our apprenticeship is over.

When old people in power scold children and young people for ‘selfishness‘ if they don’t get triple-vaxxed, or if they let their mask slip below their nose occasionally, or try to have some fun in the sun, it’s obvious who actually is being selfish.

I hate old people, I hate children. I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

Our target customers are people in their 20s. Old people wanted to be 21 again, and young people wanted to be 21 forever.

I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman’s Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn’t like children on bicycles or roller skates… or with big dogs.

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in ‘those old people.’ And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it’s become a trend.

Some old people, they remember that they used to play clarinet, and they remember the squeaks of the clarinet. But I don’t play like that.

There are few things I like more than to see old people twinkling. A shopping centre I frequent has Tea Dance Tuesdays and I regularly pop by to see the over- 60s twirling about to a live band.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I think, the world over, new ideas have come from young people. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, but it is rare that new or radical ideas come from old people.

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric – they can behave the way they want.

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won’t think you’re going gaga.

Life is sweet, but sometimes old people just don’t get it.

Any woman will tell you after the menopause, nobody whistle at her, well – that’s just the beginning. As you get older people don’t want you at their parties, we all are prejudiced about old people.

Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.

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.

I’d stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we’re just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.

Harlem is not a playground for rich bankers and consultants. It’s got students of all colors. It’s got old people who keep history and tell tall tales.

I am happy to be patient zero. It is for the world, for the sick children and sick old people. My life has been good. I understand the risks but I research how people die and I am happy to say that today I do not know how I will die now. Tomorrow or in the long future I was up for a change.

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they’re incredibly good telly.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.

I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.

Oh, I am very old fashioned about my literature taste. I like Henry James. I like George Elliot. I like Dostoyevsky. I like the old people. I really do. I like people who write big, fat, juicy novels you can get completely lost in!

That’s why I’m never happy. Every tragedy, I really feel very painful – especially about a child or old people. This is reality. We try to close eyes and ears, but it’s happening every second, and somehow, unfortunately, I feel a connection.

I don’t colour my hair, and I look like the back end of a bus, so I get asked to play old people.

I grew up in the East Village with a lot of old people in my building, and I’m not sure if they lost their sense of smell over the years, but they always seemed to smell like they poured a bottle of perfume on themselves. I never want to become that person.

I’ve always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

You either evolve or you don’t. I don’t like old people on a rock n’ roll stage. I think they look pathetic, me included. And the fact that I represent an era means I can’t just go out there and do all new stuff. They would all say, ‘Sing ‘White Rabbit,’ and I’d say no? That’s rude.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

Don’t hustle old people.

If someone says to you, ‘Go to an old-folks’ home,’ that’s kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it’s the thing that makes me laugh the most.

Is a one-way trip to Mars ever really seriously going to happen? Surely that’s morally reprehensible. However old people are, however much they say they want to go on a one-way mission, people should be thinking about the possibility of returning.

When I’m sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

When I think about Edmonton, Silver Street and Pymmes Park, the old people whose faces are so unhappy, it pushes me to be better. I want to be better to help places like this.

Television was not cool among the young people of my era, the last years of the ’90s and the early ’00s. It was not just old people who’d castigate you for watching anything but public television. We young people scoffed at each other about it.

Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that.

I used to love to sit and listen to the old people talk about yesterday. There’s a lot of good information there.

I don’t want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

God has use for all the old people.

I suppose the only thing at 50 you can really start to look forward to is just total irresponsibility. As you get older, you can just sit in a chair, wear anything you want, you know you can walk down; old people dress cool. You know they wear sweatpants. The elderly have it down.