Top 26 Quotes About The Elderly Wisdom
#1. The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
Andy Rooney
#5. Blessed are you when you enjoyed the company of elderly people. They are always ready to share their rich experience and wisdom with young people.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#6. The paradox of life; I wish to have healthy long life. But no one wants to show the glory of the gray hair.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#7. Irene Finney, like many very elderly people, knew that the world was indeed flat. It had a beginning and an end. And she had come to the edge.
Louise Penny
#8. It's pretty scripted on the road: very organised and compartmentalised, and that's the way it has to be with so many people involved in a Stones tour.
Bobby Keys
#10. Frankly, I wish they would do 'The Bachelorette' for old people. And I could be the bachelorette.
Julie White
#11. I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.
John Updike
#12. As child, when the elders spoke their wise words, it only echoes in my ears. As adult, I have crystal clear insight to the wise aphorisms by the elderly.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#14. It is gracious to have old people full of vitality and endowed with wisdom in our society.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#15. To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years.
Donald Laird
#16. I've never
stopped wanting to cross
the equator, or touch an elk's
horns, or sing Tosca or screw
James Dean in a field of wheat.
To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong:
I'll never be through with my life.
Rita Dove
#17. The adult were once young.
The young have not yet attained adulthood.The young must learn to appreciate the wisdom of elderly people and learn from their life experiences.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#21. Sometimes the wisdom of the elderly is equivalent to that of a child.
Charles Lee
#22. Sometimes I have a feeling that I just can't get rid of. Sometimes there's an experience that I want to write about that I have to get off my chest. Sometimes there are some words that appeal to you.
Edward Hirsch
#23. Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society ... the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.
Pope Francis
#24. open into the rain. "We're going together. Come on, Mom.
Rick Riordan
#25. The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.
Sarah Ferguson
#26. Life is essentially a question of values.
Meir Kahane
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