Top 37 Quotes About Aging Parents
#1. If ever we needed to put the Golden Rule into action, it's with our aging parents.
Billy Graham
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. RETURN TO TENDER
Our aging parents deserve the same loving care they gave us in infancy
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.
Karl Pilkington
#11. To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.
Tia Walker
#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
#14. It's call a Triquetra, the balance of the mind, body and spirit. A Celtic symbol. - Evan
Mira Monroe
#15. 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
#16. It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.
Tina Fey
#17. By loving you more, you love the person you are caring for more.
Peggi Speers
#18. Love is the strongest kind of army because it generates no resistance.
David Brooks
#19. I made a point to not read too far ahead with the first six or seven episodes of any show. I would read the outlines, but I didn't really want to read scripts too far in advance because I didn't really want to get ahead of myself, at all. To be honest, I don't have the time to come up with theories.
Simon Baker
#20. 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
#21. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
Kurt Vonnegut
#22. 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
#24. Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.
Vincent Massey
#25. Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.
Tia Walker
#26. When I was a kid, I never went to Disneyland. My ol' man told me Mickey Mouse died in a cancer experiment.
Rodney Dangerfield
#27. Being able to dedicate 100 per cent of my time to impacting more businesses without being operational, it just gives me a bigger platform.
Jochen Zeitz
#28. When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.
Lauren Bacall
#30. 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
#31. Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'
Sue Monk Kidd
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. You are a human with one life and it is up to you to make it the best life you can.
Dan Howell
#35. Refire - an attitude of embracing the years ahead with enthusiasm rather than apathy.
Morton Shaevitz
#36. 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
#37. Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.
Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver
Peggi Speers
