Top 100 Quotes About Elders
#1. There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
Jorge Luis Borges
#2. Loved her?! I never even touched her," he said.
"That's the problem with men, Jack," she said, "you think that love has to start in the fingers.
Kevin Alyn Elders
#3. Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.
Zakes Mda
#4. our sole delight was play; and for this we were punished by those who yet themselves were doing the like. But elder folks' idleness is called "business"; that of boys, being really the same, is punished by those elders;
Anonymous
#5. Younger Arabs are much less satisfied with education in the region than their elders, and are more comfortable networking and communicating via digital means.
Joe Saddi
#6. We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.
Joycelyn Elders
#7. Be a good listener to the elders. There is a good chance that you will learn something in 20 minutes or less that took them 70 or more years to learn.
Fredio Samples
#8. Certainly we have to find some kind of warning to put on guns for sale. And that's not too far-fetched. But what I really want to do is take the guns out of the hands of irresponsible people.
Joycelyn Elders
#10. If the Son was begotten by the Holy Ghost, it would be very dangerous to baptize and confirm females, and give the Holy Ghost to them, lest he should beget children, to be palmed upon the Elders by the people, bringing the Elders into great difficulties
Brigham Young
#11. When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you'd best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.
Nalo Hopkinson
#12. One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right.
Joseph Bruchac
#13. Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.
Li Peng
#14. It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young people think they are so smart. Alas the doctrines they spout with such fervor turn out to be mostly parroted from their elders.
John Dos Passos
#15. On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India ... However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders.
Dervla Murphy
#16. We have come to this earth upon a mission ... that we may have power to go forth and warn the nations of the earth ... As elders of Israel, very few of us fully comprehend our position, our calling, our relationship to God, our responsibility, or work the Lord requires at our hands
G. Homer Durham
#17. There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
Margaret Mead
#18. Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?
Barry Hannah
#19. The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral failings, contradictions with the elders, nostalgia for a nonexistent Kenyan past.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
#20. Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.
The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.
Toba Beta
#21. The elders encourage diversity, once you jump through enough of their hoops," said Siham, "but woe to the hoop-averse." "How
Gabriel Squailia
#22. The first time I read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, my instinctive reaction was, so what's wrong with THAT? Isn't that the way any master plan should work? Doesn't the public deserve - nay, demand - such despotism?
Anton Szandor LaVey
#23. Energy is a being yet is not. For it to materialise it must be pure thus it turns into a crystal like form.
That is the true being of the Elders and the Three Immortal Blades.
And your body has been cursed with it.
Max Jacket- The Three Immortal Blades
Kia Carrington-Russell
#24. it seems best to view deacons as servants who do whatever is necessary to allow the elders to accomplish their God-given calling of shepherding and teaching the church.
Matt Schmucker
#25. I think we should have a very, very heavy tax on handguns and on bullets.
Joycelyn Elders
#26. As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.
Jenna Morasca
#27. Castle Rock Middle School was a frowning pile of red brick standing between the Post Office and the Library, a holdover from the time when the town elders didn't feel entirely comfortable with a school unless it looked like a reformatory.
Stephen King
#28. There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
Jessamyn West
#29. History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.
Hilary Mantel
#30. It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death.
Misty Upham
#31. Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.
Vera Nazarian
#32. The fact that social media has leveled the playing field doesn't offer you the right to disrespect the elderly
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#33. What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
Wade Davis
#34. To find meaning in our lives we need consistent exposure to kids, elders and animals ... cuz kids and animals aren't looking for it, and elders are the closest to finding it.
Gregor Collins
#36. I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.
Karisma Kapoor
#37. What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.
Umberto Eco
#38. It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to study, in sturdy defiance of the male elders of the family, who protested and decided that I should be married off instead.
Dalia Grybauskaite
#39. Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.
Joycelyn Elders
#40. Pastors, elders, and members often misinterpret the church through business and organizational lenses.
Jeramie Rinne
#41. There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.
John Agyekum Kufuor
#43. Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent.
Richard Allen
#44. I feel that we can't educate children who are not healthy, and we can't keep them healthy if they're not educated. There has to be a marriage between health and education. You can't learn if your mind is full of unhealthy images from daily life and confusion about right and wrong.
Joycelyn Elders
#45. But I'm saying we are loosing the people who are going to pay my social security. And that bothers me.
Joycelyn Elders
#46. In Western Civilization, our elders are books.
Gary Snyder
#47. Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them.
Jean Liedloff
#48. I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.
Heather Matarazzo
#49. Saint Francis of Assisi understood the power of faith put into action to change the human heart, for it was he who said, "Preach the gospel always; when necessary use words." We had not yet spoken a word in their language, but the village elders had already "heard" the gospel.
Richard Stearns
#50. Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
Ben Lindsey
#51. Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.
Corrie Ten Boom
#52. Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#53. I've been a therapist for more than forty years and certainly there is a place for "wise elders" in the healing process. But most people, most of the time, can heal themselves and those they love, with the help of their family, friends, and community.
Jed Diamond
#54. Damn you, Anaxantis. You and your brother were supposed to sit on your princely asses, organize the occasional banquet, use your high sounding titles to ravish the local girls, or boys, or sheep, whatever takes your fancy for all I care, and leave serious matters to your elders.
Andrew Ashling
#55. Who is the NRA anyway? They are usually middle-income people who only think of themselves, who want to have no government, really, except self-rule by themselves. I think that little cracks are starting to emerge in the NRA armor.
Joycelyn Elders
#56. Respecting one's elders is difficult enough, but when they are soaked with water and have proved themselves to be dishonest, it is nearly impossible.
Lemony Snicket
#57. The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.
Charles Hodge
#58. I have so much respect for people that are my elders. You aren't going to hear me cursing around people that are 60 and 70 years old.
Ray Lewis
#59. A lesson church leaders need to learn is that relationships must not be neglected.
Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.
#60. Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys.
Penelope Lively
#61. You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.
Joycelyn Elders
#62. Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
Joycelyn Elders
#63. Phaedra shook her head. If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because it will be their children who come to slaughter us one day, all because of careless words passed down by their elders who meant no harm.
Melina Marchetta
#64. When my brother and me got into performing in the late '40s and early '50s, it was a sensational opportunity to learn from our elders. Every show we played had a dancer, a comic, a juggler, a singer, an acrobat. I came to appreciate virtuosity in all forms of the business.
Gregory Hines
#65. The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#66. We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.
Adora Svitak
#67. And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.
Khalil Gibran
#68. I've heard Eric Clapner, ... I think it was a wonderful thing that Eric Clapner the musician did ... So I think that's the wonderful part about it, but listen - I like Eric Clapner!
Joycelyn Elders
#69. I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking the cliches and conventions of their elders and the final part mocking the cliches and conventions of the young.
Michael Chabon
#70. As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.
Joycelyn Elders
#71. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.
Willa Cather
#72. This is pretty hard on the Elders, is it not? If they could remember one thousandth part of that which they have heard, it would have sanctified them years and years ago; but it goes in at one ear and out at the other
it is like the weaver's shuttle passing through the web.
Brigham Young
#73. I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#74. LIFE TIP #7: Respect your elders. You never know when they'll insult the person you hate.
Emma Hart
#75. Education comes from living life, following passions, accessing information, observing, reflecting, and being inspired by wise and courageous elders in the community.
Claire Aumonier
#76. Elders pass harsh judgments on people who have committed the same sins that they themselves are guilty of - except that they have managed to keep it secret. This is nothing less than hypocrisy!
Samuel Ngewa
#77. How do you get rid of the trash? It's out there in society, it's going on every day [ ... ] You can educate children an awful lot easier than you can get rid of the trash.
Joycelyn Elders
#78. The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.
Brenda Lee
#79. We'd had a message from Just, the first to reach us in many a month. He and Hearth had left home almost three years ago. With youth's fine disregard for the concerns of their elders, they'd sent messages only sporadically.
Robin Hobb
#80. It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.
Russell Means
#81. And yet, when we stopped at the last hamlet and I saw him embrace the elders and leave gifts, saw the hope that he left behind, and remembered it was he who had saved Kaden from the savagery of his own kind, I wondered if anything I felt in my gut really mattered.
Mary E. Pearson
#82. The speaker says one of the blessings of the family of God is that the enthusiasm of children influences their elders while experience seasons the younger members.
Matt Chandler
#83. They danced on the shore in marvelous, civilized, humorous reels in which the old contributed wit when they could not contribute grace, and the young listened to their elders, who told them in their dancing to hold on, to love, to be patient, and most of all, to trust.
Mark Helprin
#84. It is indispensable for us to undermine all faith, to tear out of the mind of the "goyim" the very principle of god-head and the spirit, and to put in its place arithmetical calculations and material needs
Protocols Of The Learned Elders Of Zion
#85. Whatever your difficulty, whatever your hardship in life: Dance and make the song you sing your prayer. Sing it courageously, and with each step strengthen yourself with the knowledge and wisdom of your elders, so that whatever next happens, you can survive and not lose your rhythm.
Red Haircrow
#86. The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
Socrates
#87. 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
#88. Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.
Lewis H. Lapham
#89. That was it. Owen grabbed his arm, yanked it toward him, and head-butted the punk. He went down with a yelp and Owen stood up, kicking his chair away behind him. "Respect your elders, lad!"
The inn got quiet the way things will when shit gets real.
Kevin Hearne
#90. I lose my patience, and I own it too,
When works are censur'd, not as bad but new;
While if our Elders break all reason's laws,
These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
Alexander Pope
#91. The devil knows that if the elders of Israel should ever wake up, they could step forth and help preserve freedom and extend the gospel. Therefore the devil has concentrated, and to a large extent successfully, in neutralizing much of the priesthood. He has reduced them to Sleeping Giants.
Ezra Taft Benson
#92. Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency
Carlos Fuentes
#93. Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in the U.S. with our national resources. All these kids are being educated to be Americans, not citizens of Minneapolis or San Francisco.
Jonathan Kozol
#94. He had the choice of the poor with no other way to survive, the choice of a child powerless to his elders, the choice of a man when his King gives him an order, which is no choice at all, and yet still more than is afforded to a slave.
C.S. Pacat
#95. Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.
William Brewster
#96. Setrakus is more or less invincible. Only Pittacus Lore, the most powerful of all the Lorien Elders, would have been able to defeat him.
Pittacus Lore
#97. A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.
Jonas Salk
#98. I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.
Joycelyn Elders
#99. Maurice Kenny stands at the forefront of his generation. Few writers of any ethnicity are destined to be remembered in the mainstream of literary history; I believe that Kenny's contributions as a poet are among those few. He writes from the center, as our Elders would say.
Wendy Rose
#100. I was the youngest of nine siblings ... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.
Tina Ambani
