Top 36 Elder People Quotes
#1. Treasure the wisdom of old age.
Learn from elder people and be wise.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#2. No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
Jonathan Swift
#3. We do not naturally care about people we don't know ... If we tried to feel sorry for every death, our little hearts would explode ... I don't have any physical reaction to the news. And there's no reason I should. I don't know them and the news has no effect on my life.
John Elder Robison
#4. Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.
John Elder Robison
#5. As a logical thinker, I cannot help thinking, based on the evidence, that many people who exhibit dramatic reactions to bad news involving strangers are hypocrites.
John Elder Robison
#7. Learning how to get along with other people is vital for our own success and happiness.
John Elder Robison
#9. Here indeed is a major difference between people and ants: where we send our young men to war, ants send their old ladies. No moral lesson there, unless you are looking for a less expensive form of elder care.
Edward O. Wilson
#10. (The only time making a fist around the fork helps is when you want to stab someone because he's stealing your food. Now I know stabbing people is really rude, so I hold my fork in the grown-up way all the time, and I rely on discreet snarls to protect my dinner from predators.)
John Elder Robison
#11. Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.
Larry Elder
#12. People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
Larry Elder
#13. Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder
#14. It does not matter what sixty-six percent of people do in any particular situation. All that matters is what you do.
John Elder Robison
#16. The whole world is a large Niepokalanow where the Father is God, the mother the Immaculata, the elder brother the Lord Jesus in all the tabernacles of the world, and the younger brothers the people.
Maximilian Kolbe
#17. People-to-people charity is more efficient, less costly, more human and compassionate, and more likely to inspire change and self-sufficiency in the beneficiary.
Larry Elder
#18. I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life.
Dick Van Dyke
#19. This man welcomes sinners and eats with them," Jesus confronted the Pharisees and scribes not only with the return of the prodigal son, but also with the resentful elder son. It must have come as a shock to these dutiful religious people.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#20. It has always bothered me that many people, doctors included, tend to view anything that deviates from the typical as being abnormal or broken.
John Elder Robison
#21. There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.
Terence McKenna
#22. People live up to 75, the other is just a gift.
Deyth Banger
#23. When I act politely, I build a reserve of goodwill in others. That reserve allows those people to cut me some slack when I do something annoying.
John Elder Robison
#24. Because Fox News is allegedly biased in favor of conservatives, critics whine like children whose lunch money got snatched. Conservatives have been pummeled for decades. Now that Fox News and conservative talk radio give people alternatives, critics squeal as if being sodomized.
Larry Elder
#25. Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
Larry Elder
#26. Aryal whispered, If I start slapping people, I might not be able to stop.
Thea Harrison
#27. I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.
Hilary Mantel
#28. The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
Larry Elder
#29. Something happens when you become an elder rock & roller and you're still functioning. People start to give you awards and recognize achievements. It's the life achievement period of your career.
Geddy Lee
#30. Sociopath" and "psycho" were two of the most common field diagnoses for my look and expression. I heard it all the time: "I've read about people like you. They have no expression because they have no feeling. Some of the worst murderers in history were sociopaths.
John Elder Robison
#31. Elder Neal A. Maxwell suggests that the prime reason the Savior personally acts as the gatekeeper of the celestial kingdom is not to exclude people, but to personally welcome and embrace those who have made it back home.
Tad R. Callister
#32. It must be my logical consideration of a decision many see as purely intuitive or emotional that throws other people for a loop.
John Elder Robison
#33. He was surrounded by people who loved him, yet he had never felt lonelier.
Thea Harrison
#34. Has anybody ever written a horror pop-up book? The center of the book pops up and opens the gate to the elder gods. Of course you'll want to shrink wrap these books because you want people to buy them before they get sucked into another dimension.
Neil Leckman
#36. The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
Seneca The Elder
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