Quotes About Older Persons

#1. People will doubt you, but do you doubt your own self? People will insult your integrity, but do you trust yourself? If you are at peace with yourself and with God, you can be at peace with the world.

Nana Awere Damoah

#2. Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.

Thomas Szasz

#3. It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

Julia Roberts

#4. I write because I know magic happens

Anamika Mishra

#5. No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and prepare to let your light shine forth.

Paulo Coelho

#6. The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute ... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

Barack Obama

#7. The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. It wasn't her fault if she seemed less than human, it was the fault of them that did this to her, and them that didn't raise a voice against it.

Hillary Jordan

#9. A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

B.R. Ambedkar

#10. The Republicans are all about suppressing votes.

Howard Dean

#11. some things cost more than you realize

Radiohead

#12. On the one hand, you're the same person, but as you get older, you change somewhat, and you never know how it's going to affect your work.

Martin Scorsese

#13. Why can't people credit that he and all of us had a sense of humour?

Ingrid Thulin

#14. Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been 'The Need to Be' because of what it says. I love the way that song was written, I love the melody, I love everything about it.

Gladys Knight

#15. The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

Robert A. Heinlein

#16. Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves.

Urie Bronfenbrenner

#17. The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.

Tom G. Palmer

#18. Unfortunately, there are mental invalids of every age who exist on other people's terms. It's lazy for older persons to let others make up their minds for them. People have to overcome that.

Marian Seldes