Elders Quotes

308 Elders quotes by 256 unique authors

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
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves… — Jessamyn West
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. — Earl Wilson
When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I was beating everyone… — Viswanathan Anand
Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker. — Lisa Ling
Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else. — Oscar Wilde
And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its… — Khalil Gibran
Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile — Anne Rice
The world was fair, the mountains tall In Elder Days before the fall... — J.R.R. Tolkien
Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more… — William Shakespeare
Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we… — William Shakespeare
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early… — Eudora Welty
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is… — George Bernard Shaw
In Western Civilization, our elders are books. — Gary Snyder
Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in… — William Shakespeare
Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not… — Willa Cather
The devil knows that if the elders of Israel should ever wake up, they could step forth and help preserve freedom and extend the gospel.… — Ezra Taft Benson
And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a… — Daniel Handler
...since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary… — James McBride
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising… — George Sand
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he… — Francis Bacon
All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark… — Arthur Rimbaud
Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they… — Utah Phillips
In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight. — T.H. White

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