People say, 'Respect your elders,' but I always go, 'Respect your young people because they are our future.' — Booker T Copy Share Image
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age. — William Brewster Copy Share Image
In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Do the right things, respect your elders, respect your teachers, continue to work hard, and if you are religious and you have… — Ha Ha Clinton-Dix Copy Share Image
There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person… — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young,… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
If the Son was begotten by the Holy Ghost, it would be very dangerous to baptize and confirm females, and give the… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a floating, cosmic bash shouting its… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“It was true that the elders found everything changing all about them with a precipitation which was leaving them stripped of authority.… — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as… — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
As Elder George F. Richards, President of the Council of the Twelve, said in a conference address in April 1947, 'when we… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The ultimate replacement for any of the false gods that are a part of our lives is a deep and abiding love… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect — but do not believe him.… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
When he breathed he truly was Australia's greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians. — Noel Pearson Copy Share Image
Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
So long as mists envelop you, be still. Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists - as it… — Chief White Eagle Copy Share Image
The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
By the way, all joking aside, do I call you Ghastly or Elder Bespoke?' 'You can call me whatever you like.' Vex… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
My Indian name was Runs with Scissors, but eventually the tribe elders changed it to Waves at Dogs. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
Youngsters lack wisdom; elders lack energy! When wisdom and energy comes to gather, great things are destined to happen! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
You don't have to be one of the Elders. You don't have to be well known. You just have to be determined… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
