Deferred Quote by Patricia Briggs

Like children, the elders are a burden. But unlike children, they offer no hope or promise. They are a weight and an encumbrance and…

— Kent Nerburn

The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to…

— Sarah Ferguson

The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life.

— Louis Cozolino

I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody…

— Alice Walker

“My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than…

— Ezra Pound

“Tradition is a fragile thing in a culture built entirely on the memories of the elders.”

— Alice Albinia

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not…

— Alice Walker

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

— William Penn

When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.

— Nalo Hopkinson

We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater…

— Luc de Clapiers

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

— Anonymous