Elders Quotes · Page 3

All things are bound together. All things connect.

— Chief Seattle

“In Cainsville, town elders still hold power. They’ll protect you.”

— Kelley Armstrong

I have always listened to elders in my life.

— Govinda

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

— Umberto Eco

“Conscience defined by the elders, passed on to the next generations.”

— Toba Beta

No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.

— Anonymous

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

— Gary Snyder

Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries

— John Cleese

You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.

— Bernard Lagat

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

— George Santayana

Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.

— Nellie L. McClung

I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have…

— Anne Hutchinson

I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.

— Anonymous

The Tsarnaev brothers, the elder brother made a public call to jihad and the [Barack] Obama administration didn't target it.

— Ted Cruz

My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.

— Geoffrey Wilkinson

Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life.

— Louis Cozolino

Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down…

— Li Peng

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

Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so?…

— Aldous Huxley

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

“They danced on the shore in marvelous, civilized, humorous reels in which the old contributed wit when they could not contribute grace,…

— Mark Helprin

It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go…

— Dalia Grybauskaite

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders…

— Joshua Lederberg

When an elder turns to face the dead, that means he turns away from facing the future and his own retirement in…

— Robert Bly

“the New Testament offers more instruction regarding elders than on other important church subjects such as the Lord’s Supper, the Lord’s Day,…

— Alexander Strauch

We stand in need of such reflections to comfort us for the loss of some illustrious characters, which in our eyes might…

— Edward Gibbon

What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because…

— Bertrand Russell

... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally…

— Hilaire Belloc

But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer…

— Louis O. Kelso

Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who…

— Anonymous

It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant…

— Plato

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

— Francis Bacon

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

— Mason Cooley

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.

— George Burns

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

— Jane Austen

Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.

— Miriam Makeba

As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.

— Mason Cooley

I always check with elders back in the village before I try out something new.

— Chef Damu

“The earth is over a million years old; respect your elders.”

— Deanna Anderson