Honor Your Elders Quotes

#1. What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

Umberto Eco

#2. You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the
Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.

Benjamin Disraeli

#3. The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

Brenda Lee

#4. A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

Saint Ambrose

#5. The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

Eugene McCarthy

#6. Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.

John Travolta

#7. It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life
without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being.

James A. Baldwin

#8. People say like, "I don't know how you do it. You must get no sleep." I actually do get the right amount of sleep every night. That's my rule. But if I'm writing until six in the morning I sleep until two in the afternoon and it's the only thing that keeps me healthy and sane.

Julie Plec

#9. The faces of these young people, especially those who were military men, bore that expression of condescending respect for their elders which seems to say to the older generation, "We are prepared to respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs to us.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?

Nadia Scrieva

#11. It did cross our minds at one point.Actually it seemed to keep crossing them.Maybe we should put in a crosswalk.
Ash

L.J.Smith