Aging Parents Quotes:

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Birthday, Beautiful, Art, Inspirational Age, Old Person

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

- Haim Ginott

topic: Parent, Age, Generations, Younger Generation, Happy Mothers Day

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

- Louis Mann

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Men, Caregiving, Caregivers

For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads.

- Willow Bay

source: "The Daily Balancing Act" by Willow Bay, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2007.

topic: Jobs, Children, Home, Crashing Down, Aging Parents

What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.

- Anne-Marie Slaughter

topic: Mother, Children, Father, Broadband, Aging Parents

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.

- Florence King

topic: Pain, Couple, Growing Up, Proliferation, Support Groups

Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn't eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents. You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

- Bill Moyers

topic: Children, Long, People, Citizens United, Court Decision

But from the perspective of the aging parent, there is no major difference between four and fifteen, except that when your child is four, his motoring privileges are restricted to little toy Fisher-Price vehicles which are unlikely (although I would not totally rule it out in America) to sue you.

- Dave Barry

source: Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.168, Ballantine Books

topic: Children, Differences, America, Aging Parents