Elders Quotes

308 Elders quotes by 256 unique authors

I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling… — Marian Wright Edelman
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name… — Charles Hodge
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children;… — Hubert H. Humphrey
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
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. — Louis Kronenberger
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. — Maggie Kuhn
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't… — Doris Lessing
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. — Ben Lindsey
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
History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give… — Hilary Mantel
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. — W. Somerset Maugham
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. — Margaret Mead
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled… — Dwight L. Moody
Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: 'Keep trying, don't… — Joyce Carol Oates
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled… — Jean Paul
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
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says… — John Piper
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. — Elvis Presley
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. — George Santayana
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a… — Tom Stoppard
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. — Jonathan Swift
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

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