Older People Quotes

#1. If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.

Erik Larson

#2. Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a while. It's a very rare disease with no cure. It usually attacks older people, and here i am afflicted with it at my tender age.

Madeleine L'Engle

#3. The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"
anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

Joe Bob Briggs

#4. I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of new ideas. Older people need their whole energy to keep up with what's already been set in motion.

Michael Cunningham

#5. I know from my own parents how important active older people are to a local community.

Charles Kennedy

#6. Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

Isabel Allende

#7. Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off.

James Surowiecki

#8. One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.

Steve Case

#9. Being a very bad daughter, I never really took time to sit down and listen to my mother's story, and she passed away in 2003. I became very guilty and began to spend a lot of time with older people. I listened carefully to their stories.

Mabel Cheung

#10. People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

Olivia Wilde

#11. I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.

Bob Hope

#12. People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.

Nicholas Sparks

#13. Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present.

Chip Conley

#14. 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.

Elizabeth Strout

#15. I find myself going out less and less. When you're 22 and see older people start to do that, it's depressing, but once you hit 30, you think, 'Wow, I've been working all week - it might be really nice to stay in!'

Josh Radnor

#16. In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

Anna Quindlen

#17. Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

S. Jay Olshansky

#18. Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.

Beck Bennett

#19. The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.

James Hillman

#20. We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.

Susan Hampshire

#21. If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.

Dennis Prager

#22. It seems to me that most things that are being made are designed for young people. There aren't that many depictions of melancholic older people, even though they form a growing proportion of the population.

Peter Capaldi

#23. I don't want this music to die.The older people are passing it on to the younger generation so the younger generation can pass it on to the next generation.

Vy Higginsen

#24. Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

Penelope Keith

#25. Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

Robert Orben

#26. If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Tom Stoppard

#27. And older people were like babies; something about their demeanour made you love them despite their ignorant selfish personalities.

Cecelia Ahern

#28. If we ... capitalize on the very real strengths of older people, then added years of life can dramatically improve quality of life at all ages.

Laura L. Carstensen

#29. It seems the older people get, the more shit they ignore. Or, like Dad, they pay attention to stuff that distracts them from the more important things that they're ignoring.

A.S. King

#30. We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care.

Julie Bishop

#31. For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to.

Teddy Thompson

#32. That stage in life when older people assume that just because you've graduated college you know who you are, or what you're doing, and in fact most people don't.

Kim Gordon

#33. seventy fall short of the current target for vitamin D; older people fare even worse,

Walter C. Willett

#34. I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me.

Donna Shalala

#35. It's more of the older people in my family.

Amber Rose

#36. Research has shown that healthy lifestyles are
more influential than genetic factors in helping older people avoid
the deterioration traditionally associated with aging.

Patricia A. Tabloski

#37. I don't know how many times I heard older people, and not just parents but just older people, say, 'Oh, my God. Your generation is just totally nuts. You have no sense of what it was really like, when it was great.' And every generation has that same feeling, you know?

Alex Lifeson

#38. Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#39. We will always want films ... that basically are centred on young people, because young people is the way we live on, we older people, insofar as we live on.

Vanessa Redgrave

#40. Technology changing the world so quickly. I think it's even more difficult for older people to keep up in the world. And that's a challenge.

Fisher Stevens

#41. These older people were the limit... They harped on things so.

Agatha Christie

#42. Older people often mistakenly consider that the young people do not care about their country, but the reverse is actually true.

Peter Cosgrove

#43. It's an incredibly supportive and friendly field. Older people want to foster and help younger people. Which is not true of all creative fields, but it is true of comics, and it is true of radio.

Jessica Abel

#44. I used to look at older people who bothered to still attend nightclubs and couldn't help but wonder why. Didn't they realize how foolish they looked? Of course, now that I'm one of those people myself, I have decided that such rules don't apply to me.

Jarvis Cocker

#45. Fear is a huge thing for older people.

James Hillman

#46. So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.

Jack LaLanne

#47. With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#48. In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.

Juan Williams

#49. Low levels of vitamin D in older people can double the risk of developing dementia in later life, according to one of the biggest studies of its kind into the nutritional supplement.

Anonymous

#50. Middle age is such a low point for well-being; it's at the bottom of a U-shaped curve that shows greater happiness among the younger and older people.

Jed Diamond

#51. I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.

Daniel Petrie

#52. Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live.

David Oliver Relin

#53. My advice to young people is ask older people questions and don't be afraid.

Chuck D

#54. Animation can be a full spectrum of different storytelling techniques and different genres. I think it's sad that there is only one audience that the studios are aiming for and that's the kid audience. It's really tragic that they don't' make films for older people.

Bill Plympton

#55. A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

Nelson Mandela

#56. You make friends with older people and you always feel young no matter what.

Albert Brooks

#57. The cuter girls kinda went off from the older women because we're younger, and we're cuter, we've got better bodies, and for some reason that's like a huge issue with older people.

Heidi

#58. I hang out with a lot of older people, so I've matured a little bit, but I do still have my immature side.

Justin Bieber

#59. Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.

Nikki Giovanni

#60. I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible

David R. Brower

#61. The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#62. I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business - people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can't just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you've brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.

Mimi Kennedy

#63. Interestingly, a lot of the polling that I see is not along racial lines, but along generational lines. We are doing better and better among younger people, not so well among older people, whether they're African-American, whether they're white or whether they're Latino.

Bernie Sanders

#64. This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people.

Ram Dass

#65. There's no respect for older people at all today, and that's saddening. Look at the way crime against older people has risen! You know, there's no calling people 'Mr' or 'Mrs' now, they just call you, and it's all 'fuck off' and the likes of.

Stephen Richards

#66. The group who really could benefit from more protein is not fit young gym-goers but older people, who seem to be at much greater risk of protein deficiency.

Bee Wilson

#67. I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

Doris Lessing

#68. Always observe, watch, and talk to older people.

Nas

#69. Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

Alan Rickman

#70. From the accounts of those who have had glimpses of Heaven in visions and revelations, it seems that we do mature somewhat in Heaven. Those who arrive in their youth grow to maturity, while older people appear more middle-aged, in the prime of life.

David Berg

#71. By now I have come to feel that the fact of being a 'child', of being wholly
subservient and dependent, of being seen by older people as a mixture of expensive nuisance, slave and super-pet, does most young people more harm than good

John Holt

#72. I didn't know what being young had to do with it. It seemed to me that older people could do foolish things just as easily as young ones. I had certainly seen older people do some very foolish things.

Catherine M. Wilson

#73. 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.

Daisaku Ikeda

#74. I don't want to see older people on T.V. I want to see young, pretty people on T.V.

Cilla Black

#75. My dad drank pretty heavily, and he never missed a day of work in his life. So I never looked at drinking as a serious problem, but drugs to me are a serious problem. I think it's a generational thing. I think older people don't feel as uncomfortable around drinkers as they do around dopers.

Alex Trebek

#76. I think there has always been an obsession with youth and beauty. What's missing is the equal obsession with respect for ... older people ... and their wisdom and knowledge and courage.

Julie Christie

#77. I was young and physically fit and I struggled here, so I had a deep respect for the older people, and those with disabilities, who returned class after class in spite of their pain and their physical limitations.

Edward Burke

#78. 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.

Daniel Petrie

#79. Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

Steve Jobs

#80. There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with everything. That's the dope thing about music now. Some people don't like it, more of the older people. They want to, you know, go back to old-school New York hip-hop.

ASAP Ferg

#81. I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.

David McCullough

#82. When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate Rap or Techno' I rush to it.

George Clinton

#83. Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.

Benny Green

#84. I love young people because they are always looking ahead, and older people because they can look back; and both make sense of the world so economically. You can learn so much from the wisdom of the young and the old. I'm just in between!

Polixeni Papapetrou

#85. Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

#86. Older people are wise not only because they have lived longer. They're wise because they have lost more.

Mari Ruti

#87. 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.

Dolly Parton

#88. Everybody ages. Eighty-year-olds don't look like twenty-year-olds, and they shouldn't. We live in a throwaway culture that stashes older people away and tries not to look at them.

Vicki Myron

#89. Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.

A.S. Byatt

#90. For youth, the moon is a promise of all those tremendous things which await it, for older people a memento that the promise was never kept, a reminder of all that broke and went to pieces ...
And what is moonshine? Secondhand sunshine. Diluted, counterfeit.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#91. So many things we do as young people are things we have to live with as older people.

George Chuvalo

#92. If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.

Harry Browne

#93. Many questing young people and stressed older people nowadays seek relaxation through meditation. They look for it in Hindu, Buddhist and other Eastern religions. They are often surprised to learn that there is such a way within the Christian tradition, a way that is known as contemplation.

Ray Simpson

#94. I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.

Joanne Harris

#95. I prefer older people to college kids [as audience] for the most part. I want people with life experience, people that understand where I'm coming from.

Joe Rogan

#96. Older people are not going to evaporate from the face of the Earth for two years. They're going to have medical need and they're going to have to be attended to. And the earlier intervention for it, the less the cost will be and the better the quality of life.

Nancy Pelosi

#97. You can actually take your pain and processes it into some kind of form of art. So I mean, I've easily always been able to do that, but also I've always been able to give myself perspective - or, you know, older people always give you perspective.

Chuck D

#98. Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.

Chuck Palahniuk

#99. Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

Margaret Mead

#100. Older people exude bundles of sexuality. Older men and women tend not run around like cats and dogs in heat.

Jacqueline Bisset