Elders Quotes
308 quotes by 264 authors
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
— Francis Bacon
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
— James A. Baldwin
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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
— Henry Adams
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
— Joseph Addison
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God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best and love us…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
— Anouk Aimee
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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of…
— Pearl S. Buck
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
— Pearl S. Buck
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional…
— Diablo Cody
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We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem…
— Yasser Arafat
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One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people of rank. It…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.
— Elizabeth I
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The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
— Jane Austen
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Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!
— Charlotte Mary Yonge
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I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.
— George Burns
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With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the…
— Anna Quindlen
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No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to…
— Jonathan Swift
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To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be…
— Mickey Rooney
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Harry is my elder brother. He is the wiser one who leads Percept, he shows us the path. My job is to run it, create…
— Shailender Singh
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