Quotes About Elder Abuse

#1. Preliminary research-most of it published outside the medical literature-indicates that a significant number of our patients have experienced some form of violence and abuse during their lifetime, including elder abuse, child abuse, gang-related violence, sexual abuse, and domestic violence.

David Schneider

#2. To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be ashamed of. If elder abuse happened to me, it can happen to anyone. I want you to know that you deserve better.

Mickey Rooney

#3. Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

William James

#4. The young and the old are defenseless against relatives who want to get rid of them by casting them in the role of mental patient,and against psychiatrists whose livelihood depends on defining them as mentally ill.

Thomas Szasz

#5. You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.

Chuck Hagel

#6. I'm sure you have drawers overflowing with panties the ladies throw at the stage. We saw you guys play down at Mon Brewing a few times. Way to keep the Nineties alive.

Jason Jack Miller

#7. -Nobody can force you to smile, she says.
-What? I ask. But I know she's not even talking to me, only to herself, as if she's the last person left in the room.
-They can make you show your teeth, but what good is that? Nobody can make you smile against your will.

Hugo Hamilton

#8. More and more of out colleagues fail to understand our work because of the high specialization of research problems. We must not be discouraged if the products of our labor are not read or even known to exist. The joy of research must be found in doing since every other harvest is uncertain.

Theobald Smith

#9. I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence.

Cassandra Clare

#10. I was in China this year and I spent three weeks there with no luggage, in a really not very nice place and without anything except my passport and my wallet. You're a long way from home and you've got no phone and you can't get in touch with anybody.

Jill Douglas

#11. Take a step or two forward, lads. It will be easier that way.

Erskine Childers

#12. Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

Daniel Keys Moran

#13. If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

Nguyen Cao Ky