Elder Statesman Quotes

#1. A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman.

Rick Perlstein

#2. I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.

Boy George

#3. He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

Michael Foot

#4. To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting.
Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.

Michael Stipe

#5. Boonie wondered with sadness, Why don't I have any real memories like that of this elder statesman who happens to live in our house from time to time? This handsome, formal man whose blood runs mysteriously in my own veins? He was always more like a king than a father.

Suzanne Stroh

#6. The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

T. S. Eliot

#7. The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

Earl Wilson

#8. He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at our sleeve to let him tell his tale of what really happened.

Ronald Steel

#9. You hit a certain age, and you haven't died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot of applause because I'm not keeling over.

Alan Arkin

#10. Jesper gave him a little shake. "Pull it together, kid." "Not a kid," Wylan mumbled, batting Jesper's hands away. "Fine, you're an elder statesman. Do you know how to shoot?" Wylan nodded slowly. "Skeet.

Leigh Bardugo

#11. At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.

Willie Nelson

#12. History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.

James Thurber

#13. All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.

Doris Lessing

#14. But I needed to create a life of my own. And here I

Hannah Kent

#15. My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.

Gloria Estefan

#16. I want to say thank you to the great state of Indiana and all the fans ... Pacers Nation, Blue and Gold, thank you guys so much.

Reggie Miller

#17. -Before I started, when it was all in my head, the project was full of unlimited potential. Now that it's on film, it feels bordered by limitations.
-I suspect that's the way with most endeavors.

Kate Morton