Senior Quotes

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. (Douglas Coupland)
In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society. View quote
John Ralston Saul
The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that. View quote
Zara Phillips
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music. View quote
Barry White
Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens. View quote
Paul Gillmor
It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors. View quote
Vic Snyder
Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity. View quote
Bob Woodward
The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each category is to do as much work as they possibly can, so that only a small part of that work need be passed to the category above. This means that the clerks are obliged to work without cease from morning to night, whereas the senior clerks do so only now and then, the deputies very rarely, and the Registrar almost never. View quote
José Saramago
I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated. View quote
Denzel Washington
Many senior policemen put greater emphasis on maintaining 'order' than on upholding the law. In practice that meant failing to uphold the rights of individuals against the rule of the mob. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon their skill and sagacityand the opportunity to provide the respect and recognition they have earned. It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years to lifeour objective must also be to add new life to those years. (John F. Kennedy)
There you go again. When I opposed Medicare, there was another piece of legislation meeting the same problem before the Congress. I happened to favor the other piece of legislation and thought that it would be better for the senior citizens to provide better care than the one that was finally passed. View quote
Ronald Reagan
What did that mean? Where could it go? He was a death diety. I was a high school senior. View quote
Meg Cabot
I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think. View quote
Robert B. Parker
My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now. View quote
Cecily von Ziegesar
Junior and senior high school years were not a good time. View quote
Sissy Spacek
She even learnt the language of a strange country which Senior Cosetti had been told some people believed still existed, although no-one in the world could say where it was. The name of this country was Wales. View quote
Susanna Clarke
'What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory. View quote
Ben Macintyre
Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss. View quote
David Levithan
The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I'd be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, 'sure!' That was the first acting thing I did. View quote
John Krasinski
I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom. (Alexander Lebedev)
So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class. View quote
James Earl Jones
I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet. View quote
Bobby McFerrin
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it. View quote
William Westmoreland
Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women. View quote
Andrea Jung