Elder Quotes

136 Elder quotes by 117 unique authors

The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as much more than… — Jonathan Messinger
Our challenge is to unselfishly sacrifice all that we have been given, including our will. Elder Neal A. Maxwell rightly said: â€œThe submission of oneâ€™s… — Robert K. Dellenbach
The illuminated ones can take any form -- a man, a woman, a child, an elder, or even a dog. It is not inconsequential that… — Jean Houston
I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a… — Nora Johnson
Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that… — Charles Perrault
Elder Neal A. Maxwell suggests that the prime reason the Savior personally acts as the gatekeeper of the celestial kingdom is not to exclude people,… — Tad R. Callister
Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. — James Russell Lowell
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. — Gustave Flaubert
I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein… — Anne Hutchinson
It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish… — Rudyard Kipling
I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter. — Burton Richter
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father… — Taslima Nasrin
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of… — Plutarch
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is. — John Donne
There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so… — Andrew Tobias
Fr. Amphilochios, the geronta or elder on the island of Patmos when I first stayed there, would have been in full agreement. Do you know,… — Kallistos Ware
No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it.… — Bronislaw Malinowski
I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in… — Jennifer Garner
Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal way and count… — Dorotheus of Gaza

Who Wrote These Elder Quotes

117 authors contributed a total of 136 Elder Quotes, led by these top contributors: