Seniors love getting junk mail. It's sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they're part of the real world. — Harry Reid
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. — Maurice Chevalier
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. — Jane Harrison
To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am. — Andre B. Buruch
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. — Maggie Kuhn
Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. — Maggie Kuhn
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. — Chili Davis
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. — Anthony Powell
Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional. — Bob Monkhouse
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. — Hervey Allen
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. — Theodore Roosevelt
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. — Lawrence Durrell
Short Senior Citizen Quotes
Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. — Betty Friedan
Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege. — Irish Proverbs
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. — Theodore Roosevelt
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. — Fred Astaire
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. — Bernard Baruch
A man growing old becomes a child again. — Sophocles
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. — Pindar
Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar. — John Glenn
Age considers; youth ventures. — Raupach
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Senior Citizen Image Quotes
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members — Pearl S. Buck
Never doubt a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Good Senior Quotes
With respect to teachers' salaries .... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority. — Milton Friedman
I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon. — Mitt Romney
Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I've felt in pretty good control of my golf game. — Greg Norman
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line. — Michelle Bachelet
I'm not saying all seniors should be running a city or running a business, but I am saying seniors are good for a lot more than simply running a bath, baking cookies or babysitting grandchildren. — Hazel McCallion
Good news for senior citizens: Death is near! — George Carlin
No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without even seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead. — Nora Ephron
It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people. — John Sununu
The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me. — Rupert Murdoch
I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country. — John Edwards
Senior Class Quotes
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. — Dr. Seuss
There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college. — Jill Scott
I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president. — Paul D. Boyer
Wealth breeds a class of people for whom human beings are disposable commodities. Once oligarchs achieve unchecked economic and political power, as they have in the United States, the citizens too become disposable.
My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now. — Cecily von Ziegesar
I remember I was in music class, I was a senior in high school, and my music teacher was like, "You should be a stand-up comic, you could imitate anyone. — Heather McDonald
The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Its the little things citizens do. Thats what will make the difference.
I began seriously concentrating on music study after I entered senior high school. I went to a class in the arts section at the YMCA and learned music theory and composition. Today, there are many classes like this available, but this was not so much the case in those days. — Isao Tomita
Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious - but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance. Women made up nearly half my class at university, and my senior academic adviser there was a woman. In Alexandria, my friends were Christians and Muslims. — Ahmed H. Zewail
you know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year. — Nikki Giovanni
It's probably the toughest distance race in the world to win. World class runners from 1500m to the marathon contest it and instead of just three runners from each country, like in the Olympics or World Championships, in the senior men's race there are nine. — Paul Tergat
Senior Quotes
Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases. — Harry S. Truman
At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all. — Ann Landers
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age — Plato
If money is speech, then speech is no longer free - it's expensive. It's high time we overturn citizens united.
Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.' — Kalpana Chawla
There's nothing in my background that would have said I was destined to be a senior politician. — Nicola Sturgeon
NATO is about to lose a war - a real war, not a glorified policing operation - and everyone knows it. Its ammo stockpiles are empty and its European members are broke. Its senior personnel are discredited. The US are sick of it. And Trump has said he’s willing to pull the plug. — Philip Pilkington
As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs. — Michael K. Simpson
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. — Richard Halliburton
Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die. — Thom Yorke
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. — Abbott Lawrence Lowell
People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione. — J. K. Rowling
We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet. — John Lynch
I had to wait 110 years to become famous. I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible. — Jeanne Calment
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it. — Bill Vaughan
Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community. — Carol Leifer
One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him. — Harry Allen Overstreet
People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways - I'm still making movies, and I'm a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price. — George Burns
The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing. — Jake Shimabukuro
Everyone knows that senior citizens are stupid — Tom Green
My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson? — Carmen Dell'Orefice
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up. — Jill Lepore
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. — Douglas Coupland
I confess that when I first read that smog is particularly hazardous to children, senior citizens, and physically active people, for a brief moment I thought, “I’m in the clear for at least 10 more years.” — Paula Poundstone
An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job. — Newt Gingrich
Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear. — Bill Frist
Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year. — Bill Weld
And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior citizens that the world has ever seen. This is a continuing commitment to that. — James T. Walsh
Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen. — Gil Scott-Heron
Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from. — Andrew Shue
Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens. — Paul Gillmor
There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold senior officials to account with the same laws that every other citizen in the country is held to," or "This is a nation that believes in the rule of law." — Edward Snowden
If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience. — Kurt Loder
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors. — Vic Snyder
When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965, about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals. — Dennis Hastert
My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens. — Joseph Bologna
Sunday is Senior Citizens' Day. And if you want to become a senior citizen, just call the Padre ticket office. — Jerry Coleman
If there's a senior citizen in downstate Illinois that's struggling to pay for their medicine and having to chose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer even if it's not my grandparent. — Barack Obama
Dinah Shore? Wonderful woman. Dinah formed a foundation to locate missing senior citizens by putting their pictures on prune juice bottles. — Red Buttons
This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon their skill and sagacityand the opportunity to provide the respect and recognition they have earned. It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years to lifeour objective must also be to add new life to those years. — John F. Kennedy
Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens. — Ari Fleischer
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. — Doug Coupland
We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well. — Thad Cochran
All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens. — Steve King
Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history. — Jim Walsh
If I decide to run I am gonna cherish senior citizens. Living in New York that's what I see is Democrats all over the place - are going to do is say it's attack on Medicare. And Medicare to a lot of people means seniors. And I honestly think you have to go down the line in a bipartisan way. You have to go down with the Democrats. I don't think they should be too far out in front. — Donald Trump
I have one of the strongest records in fighting for senior citizens. I led the effort to prevent cuts to Social Security. But I think for some seniors, they remember the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union. They conflated the term "democratic socialism" with communism. — Bernie Sanders
I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years. — Barack Obama
Now with digital, we have much better projection, and if the theaters are charging higher prices but providing refreshments and a clean, well-lit theater, there's no reason why this cannot go on as a senior-citizen-driven business for years. Especially with movies for adults. — Oliver Stone
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