When you get real old, honey, you realizre there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying: Only little children and old folks tell the truth.

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

Valerie stayed strong for her son, she couldn't cry. The elderly and the sick were completely bedridden. I could only imagine how traumatizing it would be to lay in bed and not be able to do anything.

You know you're getting old when you look at a beautiful 19-year-old girl and you find yourself thinking, "Gee, I wonder what her mother looks like