An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders. — Confucius Copy Share Image
In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dear elders! Age will not carry your respect level always. But your words do! Stay respectful.” — Nelson Jack Copy Share Image
Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
When he breathed, he truly was Australia’s greatest white elder and friend without peer of the original Australians. — Noel Pearson Copy Share Image
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” —James Baldwin” — Wendy Jo Peterson Copy Share Image
“He had a few simple rules: respect your elders, take care of your body, finish what you start, and solve your own… — Penelope Douglas Copy Share Image
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be,… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
A lot of people think medicine hunting is all Chris trekking through the jungle. Or, for that matter, the chiefs and (male)… — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image
When my elders mentioned 'The War,' they invariably meant that of 1914-1918, even after 1939, for the Second World War was merely… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had… — Nora Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
My cousins and my uncle have been iconic heroes in the industry and I don't think I'm anywhere close to that, but… — Abhay Deol Copy Share Image
There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past… — Lady Gregory 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 service that the whole world needs from the elders is not the service of hours spent and time put in and… — Joan D. Chittister 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
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
“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
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
“My sister Sarah, with all the advantages of youth, was, strangely enough, less pliable. She did full justice to Pesca's excellent qualities… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Many institutions of higher learning will grant an 18- to 30-month deferral to prospective missionaries. This will enable you elders and sisters… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
We need our HBCUs. The youth need our HBCUs. The elders need our HBCUs. — Cree Summer Copy Share Image
A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
“Elders say that too much technology makes us slaves all over again.” — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
I always believe that the elders in my family are the reason for my success. — R. Madhavan Copy Share Image
“When kids come on the dance floor it’s time for elders to go to the bed.” — Vijay Kedia Copy Share Image
