Elders Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Elders

Elders Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Elders quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

9Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and d seventy of the elders of Israel e went up, 10and they f saw the God of Israel. — Anonymous

Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders. — George Bernard Shaw

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

Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure. — Lewis H. Lapham

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

Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms. — Joycelyn Elders

There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing. — Margaret Mead

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

...though the Elders are connected to the Great Spirit, they are still only elves. — Craig R. Key

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children. — Joycelyn Elders

Respecting one's elders is difficult enough, but when they are soaked with water and have proved themselves to be dishonest, it is nearly impossible. — Lemony Snicket

Be a good listener to the elders. There is a good chance that you will learn something in 20 minutes or less that took them 70 or more years to learn. — Fredio Samples

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education. — Joycelyn Elders

The world is in me and you are not even in the world yet. — Warren Eyster

Even the elders can give a number of helpful hints. — George Ade

But I'm saying we are loosing the people who are going to pay my social security. And that bothers me. — Joycelyn Elders

Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age. — William Brewster

When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you'd best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously. — Nalo Hopkinson

Jane, I don't like cavillers or questioners; besides, there is something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner. — Charlotte Bronte

From the mouths of our elders comes a fountain of wisdom. — Ransom Riggs

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. — Socrates

The earth is over a million years old; respect your elders. — Deanna Anderson

It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death. — Misty Upham

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright. — Vera Nazarian

The Respect for Elders Retirement Home on Moranbong Street. — Adam Johnson

But even grown-ups have elders who know better. — Ransom Riggs

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures. — Achy Obejas

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. — Eugene McCarthy

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

I have so much respect for people that are my elders. You aren't going to hear me cursing around people that are 60 and 70 years old. — Ray Lewis

I think we should have a very, very heavy tax on handguns and on bullets. — Joycelyn Elders

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 elders. — F Scott Fitzgerald

When the surgeon general [Joycelyn Elders] said that drugs should be legalized, I saw somebody else who felt what I feel. But she got fired. — Snoop Dogg

As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my parents worked. — Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

Setrakus is more or less invincible. Only Pittacus Lore, the most powerful of all the Lorien Elders, would have been able to defeat him. — Pittacus Lore

If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life. — Joycelyn Elders

White people don't seem to have many Elders. They do have a lot of oldsters. — John Trudell

If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones. — Joycelyn Elders

Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent. — Richard Allen

Conscience defined by the elders,
passed on to the next generations. — Toba Beta

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

How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen? — Nadia Scrieva

One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right. — Joseph Bruchac

When I was young, a child never asked questions of his elders," Claire Deverill said.
"Was that before or after the First World War?" Matt asked. — Anthony Horowitz

It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school. — Joycelyn Elders

Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys. — Penelope Lively

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

If you say children wouldn't know anything about masturbation on their own, you've never changed a little boy's diaper. — Joycelyn Elders

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

Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people made their plans how to have Jesus executed — Ademola Adejumo

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody. — George Burns

The playthings of our elders are called business. — Saint Augustine

Elders of the Creedish church made celibacy sound as easy as choosing not to play basketball.
Just say no. — Chuck Palahniuk

Pastors, elders, and members often misinterpret the church through business and organizational lenses. — Jeramie Rinne

The best contraceptive in the world is a good education. — Joycelyn Elders

Gathering of the Vibes is a gathering of the elders, a gathering of the youth, a gathering of family — Steve Kimock

Dear elders! Age will not carry your respect level always. But your words do! Stay respectful. — Nelson Jack

I pray. I go to mass. I even remember to respect my elders and help little old ladies across the street. What the hell did I do to deserve this? — Lora Leigh

The fact that social media has leveled the playing field doesn't offer you the right to disrespect the elderly — Bernard Kelvin Clive

The elders encourage diversity, once you jump through enough of their hoops," said Siham, "but woe to the hoop-averse." "How — Gabriel Squailia

Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance. — Corrie Ten Boom

I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man! — Rebecca McKinsey

I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. — Akshay Kumar

Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy. — Zakes Mda

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. — Herbert Hoover

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings. — Chinua Achebe

Children are easily taught, for they readily accept and believe lies told by their elders. — Dee Hock

I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted. — Joycelyn Elders

Some problems were generational; you just had to wait for the relevant elders to die off and be replaced with more progressive types. — Iain M. Banks

The newest pups always blame the elders of the pack. — Robert Jordan

As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty. — Joycelyn Elders

That were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem. — Anonymous

respect for your elders was one of the cornerstones of civilized behavior, — Diana Gabaldon

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. — Henry Adams

Handguns are a public health issue. — Joycelyn Elders

Patience is the better part of valor. And obedience the better part of humanity. Listen to your elders. — Pierce Brown

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future. — Nicolas Chamfort

[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught. — Joycelyn Elders

A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them. — Jonas Salk

When I was a child, I pestered my elders for stories. — Neil Gaiman

Black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed
by anyone. — Joycelyn Elders

For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength. — Gautama Buddha

Marijuana is beneficial to many patients — Joycelyn Elders

In Cainsville, town elders still hold power. They'll protect you. — Kelley Armstrong

This would never have happened in my day," Archeye commented from where he sat in front of the elders' den. "What's next? Kit warriors? — Erin Hunter

Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations. — Nellie L. McClung

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. — Erik H. Erikson

LIFE TIP #7: Respect your elders. You never know when they'll insult the person you hate. — Emma Hart

The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known. — Patricia Briggs

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

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people. — Charles Hodge

Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast. — Archibald MacLeish

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

In Western Civilization, our elders are books. — Gary Snyder

Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.
The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires. — Toba Beta

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. — Charlotte M. Mason

You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated. — Joycelyn Elders

Tradition is a fragile thing in a culture built entirely on the memories of the elders. — Alice Albinia

Few simple rules: respect your elders, take care of your body, finish what you start, and solve your own problems. — Penelope Douglas

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