Aging Quote by African Proverb Download Open image “It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children” — African Proverb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aging Children Duty
Like children, the elders are a burden. But unlike children, they offer no hope or promise. They are a weight and an encumbrance and… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When a child becomes an adult . . . the elders are fearful. And for good reason . . . not we but they… — Louise J. Kaplan 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 and who… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Just as kids need to learn to respect their elders, we are a society that increasingly respects our youth. — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
Kids are born into the situation they're born into, and obviously, they have no control over that. And we, as adults, it's up to… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the parents to ensure the children don't fall prey to societal pressures. — M. K. Stalin Copy Share Image
There are orphans that can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake, for it brings them work more than they… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“The most insidious of the premature responsibilities that may be foisted onto some children is the expectation that the child is somehow supposed to… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
If men swear that they want to harm you when you are asleep, you can go to sleep. If women say so, stay awake. — African Proverb Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
