as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
Under the notion that unregulated market-driven values and relations should shape every domain of human life, the business model of governance has eviscerated any viable notion of social responsibility while furthering the criminalization of social problems and cutbacks in basic social services, especially for the poor, young people and the elderly.
There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still. As long as a child needs help, as long as people are not free, there will be work to do. As long as an elderly person is attacked or in need of support, there is work to do. As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal.
The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.
Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.
When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly person, Benjamin Button was, in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel and in the film starring Brad Pitt, he dies as a newborn child. Michael Jackson's childhood was one of enormous, prodigious production. He was a child prodigy, he was a wunderkind.
The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.
My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.
The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly.
Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.
I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.
Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.
There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of human beings. Children and the elderly in tropical regions (usually the poorest) are the most widely affected. A painful, slow death is virtually certain. The worm can actually live in the host for 17 years before the host finally dies.
There are many rules for the elderly in the Highway Code. I have one too, and here it is: get a bloody move on.
If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.
An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness. . . played the calm and virtuous old men.