Elder Quotes

136 Elder quotes by 117 unique authors

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
At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a… — Willie Nelson
It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has… — John Wilkins
What a learned idea! Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and… — Brigham Young
Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father… — Brigham Young
I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those… — H P Lovecraft
After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous… — H P Lovecraft
If we have Christ with us, we can do all things. Let us not be thinking how weak we are. Let us lift up our… — Dwight L. Moody
Life is precious. Not because it is unchangeable, like a diamond, but because it is vulnerable, like a little bird. To love life means to… — Henri Nouwen
Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and a man who… — Joe Klein
I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about… — Hilary Mantel
You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers. — Pope John Paul II
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. — John Updike
As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best… — Alice Walker
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have… — Alice Walker
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. — Earl Wilson

Who Wrote These Elder Quotes

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