Kent Nerburn Quotes

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

Our traditional way: take care of the old people.

A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

But no matter how they make you feel, you should always watch elders carefully. They were you and you will be them. You carry the seeds of your old age in you at this very moment, and they hear the echoes of their childhood each time they see you.

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

In this place called victory, the elderly know that we will give them the respect and care that they deserve for having lived and walked for so long among us.

As America is growing older, there are more and more families caring for older parents and grandparents, and it's extremely expensive.

It's crucial that we keep care for our seniors a priority.

A theme throughout my life has been the intergenerational relationships human beings have.

I always had an affinity for older people. I had a job delivering newspapers, and one place I had to go was an old people's home. Some people would introduce you to their neighbors as if you were a nephew or grandson. They didn't get many visitors, so they acted like you were coming to see them. And that stuck with me for a long time.

I definitely wanna open up some assisted-living facilities around my city.

My life now is about my heart going pitter-patter for my children.

I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite.

No elderly person should be like an “exile” in our families. The elderly are a treasure for our society.

Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children and regrouped under one roof.

And now that the Greatest Generation is getting older, I think it is the responsibility of all Americans to make sure we do our part for America's seniors. You have earned the best of America -- and we need to make sure you get the protection and health care you deserve.

How thankful we ought to be ... how thankful we are, for a prophet to counsel us in words of divine wisdom as we walk our paths in these complex and difficult times. The solid assurance we carry in our hearts, the conviction that God will make his will known to his children through his recognized servant is the real basis of our faith and activity. We either have a prophet or we have nothing: and having a prophet, we have everything

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.

It's one of the best programs I've ever seen because it benefits both sides: children, who need love, and grandparents, elderly people, who need to feel wanted.

Where refugees seek deliverance that never comesAnd the heart consumes itself as if it would live,Where children age before their timeAnd life wears down the edges of the mind,Where the old man sits with mind grown cold,While bones and sinew, blood and cell, go slowly down to death,Where fear companions each day's life,And Perfect Love seems long delayed.CHRISTMAS IS WAITING TO BE BORN:In you, in me, in all mankind.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.