Top 31 Parents Aging Quotes
#1. I now urge friends and acquaintances to have conversations with their aging parents and within their families while their parents are still relatively healthy and of sound mind.
Lisa J. Shultz
#2. To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.
Tia Walker
#3. No one likes to talk about the positive parts of getting older and aging into orphanhood, how with your parents you often bury a lot of things you were never able to confront or fix or let go of.
Jill McCorkle
#4. It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.
P.D. Ouspensky
#5. Most people think that aging is genetic and yet if your parents lived to age 80+ that will add three years to your life.
Deepak Chopra
#6. The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.
Colin Wilson
#7. By loving you more, you love the person you are caring for more.
Peggi Speers
#8. Miracles are happening every moment. You just have to be ready to see them.
Debasish Mridha
#9. Occasionally I've seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.
Billy Graham
#10. If nothing else, I have learned that aging has nothing to do with the accumulation of years. Aging is the inevitable defeat of parents by their young.
Jean Sasson
#12. I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#13. If God gives you responsibility for aging parents, seek what is best for them, not what is most convenient for you. And keep contact with them!
Billy Graham
#14. RETURN TO TENDER
Our aging parents deserve the same loving care they gave us in infancy
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#15. Those who lament the dissolution of the American family-kids with no way to get to Girl Scouts, aging parents put into nursing homes-should remember what it was that kept the American family together: women's blood.
Joan Acocella
#16. Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.
Tia Walker
#17. For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads.
Willow Bay
#18. Not that Beulah didn't present her own set of problems. She did. Not least of which was fighting the temptation to fake some scribbles on her and let the ghost have fun.
Stacia Kane
#19. I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
Becky G
#20. Mother nature pushes you back the faster you go, same way people will full you back, the faster you succeed.
Arlin Sailesh Kapadia
#21. I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.
Jose Gonzalez
#22. What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
#23. Radio has always been a niche business. Cable television has always been a niche business. Magazines have always been a niche business.
Roland Martin
#24. That's what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever from the universal cloud.
Christopher Bollen
#25. They rarely look at Baba
the teenagers
and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.
Khaled Hosseini
#26. My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.
Amy Waldman
#27. Stockbrokers, secretaries, government functionaries - everybody back then was expected to have some kind of inner life.
Gary Shteyngart
#28. If ever we needed to put the Golden Rule into action, it's with our aging parents.
Billy Graham
#29. Refire - an attitude of embracing the years ahead with enthusiasm rather than apathy.
Morton Shaevitz
#30. The older you get, the closer your loves are to the surface. She was breathing rarefied air, the ether you come upon at high altitudes. I understood finally how long-held grievances and petty smallnesses might get burned off, and pure creativity and humour remain.
Elizabeth Hay
#31. Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.
Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver
Peggi Speers
