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Elders Quotes

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

Romesh Gunesekera

Grow Learn You Wrong Elders Wiser

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

Business Music Cold Honor Elders

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.

People Elders Ruling Representatives

We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.

Opinion Elders Teach Ask Ability Us

When my elders mentioned 'The War,' they invariably meant that of 1914-1918, even after 1939, for the Second World War was merely the continuation of the first, 'an armistice of 20 years,' as Marshal Foch had accurately predicted at the Versailles Peace Conference, with some changes of side.

Peace War World Elders Changes Side

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.

Children Parents Elders Signs Reveal

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 what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

Power People Name Exercise Elders

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Teen Generation Feel Elders Trouble

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

Respect Culture Better Elders Asian

As a teenager, I worked on Indian reservations, and it was such an incredible culture: the elders are so respected.

Culture Elders Incredible Indian

You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.

Society Help You Elders Healthy Way

I always believe that the elders in my family are the reason for my success.

Family Success Believe Elders Reason

As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.

Age Respect Experience Value Elders

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 give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors.' Everyone knows this.

Joyce Carol Oates

Advice Trying Attention Elders Never

I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.

Father Me Elders Lost Been Just

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

History Time Seeing Elders Young

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.

Best Men Advice Elders Young Books

Slow down and think about the lessons of the elders.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

Think Slow Down Elders Lessons

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

Joshua Lederberg

Education Science Me Pressure Elders

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Character Challenge Men Elders Glory

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Good Children Listening Elders Never

Just as kids need to learn to respect their elders, we are a society that increasingly respects our youth.

Respect Youth Society Learn Elders

I wish I would have listened, when I was a kid, to my elders or people who had my best interests at heart, and then I wish I would have been more conscious at that age also.

Metta World Peace

Age Heart Best People Wish Elders

We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to time turn our gaze upon our elders. We shall wish to read in their countenances approval of our actions.

Time Wish Trying Elders Young March

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