Elder Quotes

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

As we grow old…the beauty steals inward. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
-- Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. -- Benjamin Franklin

Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength. -- Betty Friedan

"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these."
-- Dr. Robert H. Goddard (American rocket engineer 1882-1945)

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. -- Hubert Humphrey

"I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another."
-- Theodore Hesburgh quotes

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ELDER
HERO PIX

Betty Friedan | Maggie Kuhn

Senior Citizens Day - August 21

Intl. Day of Older Persons - October 1