“They danced on the shore in marvelous, civilized, humorous reels in which the old contributed wit when they could not contribute grace,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so?… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down… — Li Peng Copy Share Image
There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of… — Emile Capouya Copy Share Image
I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
The raven hatches its young; the fish spew forth their eggs; the slim-waisted wasp transforms, and when a younger brother comes along… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The importance of the development of the emotional body is hardly recognized today. We are pretty much left to our own devices… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to approach prayer without a guide, and proudly thinks that he can learn from books, and won't go to an… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
For no sooner had I begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough ], than I became immersed in it… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
As Elders, we are fully committed to the principle that all human beings are of equal worth. You will see that we… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It means an educational system which does not simply equip the students to adjust to society, but which enables the student to… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I don't want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
While all old people have been young, no young people have been old, and this troubling fact engenders the frustration of all… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to time… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
I understand from what the Lord has revealed to us through the prophets that people are his greatest concern. We are his… — Paul H. Dunn Copy Share Image
“Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
There is no mortal man that is so much interested in the success of an elder when he is preaching the gospel… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
Elder Jeffery R. Holland: “So we have neighbors to bless, children to protect, the poor to lift up and the truth to… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
At about the age of ten, my friends and I discovered the joys of sitting in graveyards drinking merrydown cider and kissing… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
“Education comes from living life, following passions, accessing information, observing, reflecting, and being inspired by wise and courageous elders in the community.” — Claire Aumonier Copy Share Image
Apparently deciding Charles’s brief introduction wasn’t good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. “Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
When my brother and me got into performing in the late '40s and early '50s, it was a sensational opportunity to learn… — Gregory Hines Copy Share Image
I have traveled a lot around the world and have seen a lot of people come to my programs... [and it made… — Junaid Jamshed Copy Share Image
Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
![“The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods whose conspiracies explain the history of the Trojan War is gone. The gods are abandoned. But their place is filled by powerful men or groups - sinister…” quote by Karl Popper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b44/karl-popper-2167_abandoned_the-conspiracy-theory-of-society-is-a-ty_949385.jpg)
![“For no sooner had I begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough ], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frazer, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact sister studies…” quote by Bronislaw Malinowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/011/bronislaw-malinowski-37631_anthropology_for-no-sooner-had-i-begun-to-read-this-g_1356364.jpg)
![“I have traveled a lot around the world and have seen a lot of people come to my programs... [and it made me realize] that people of all ages - from little children to elders - listen to my nasheeds.” quote by Junaid Jamshed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b99/junaid-jamshed-22987_age_i-have-traveled-a-lot-around-the-world-a_971114.jpg)
