“It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.”
Beatrice Arthur
“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”
Beverly Sills
“Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.”
Evelyn Waugh
“What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.”
Gustave Flaubert
“It's devastating to us. I've cried three or four times. Seeing kids without any food, elderly people dying and the government saying that help is on the way -- that's the most shocking part.”
Joe Horn
“We were cursed when we asked for help for our elderly. We had guns aimed at us by the police who were supposed to be there to protect and serve. They made everybody sit on the ground with their hands in the air, even babies.”
Patricia Thompson
“The spring is where the church got its water from. One elderly lady told us one day that the young girls and their boyfriends would pretend that they wanted some water in order to come down to the spring to court.”
Doris Jean
