The Elders Quotes

The Elders Quote of the day

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

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

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 without examining it.

Younger Arabs are much less satisfied with education in the region than their elders, and are more comfortable networking and communicating via digital means.

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

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

A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.

Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them.

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

Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.

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

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

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.

American Jewry makes any debate on whether the ‘Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion’ are an authentic document or a forgery irrelevant. American Jews do control the world.

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

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

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

Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

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

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

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

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

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

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

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.

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

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.

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

I have traveled a lot around the world and have seen a lot of people come to my programs... [and it made me realize] that people of all ages - from little children to elders - listen to my nasheeds.

Everybody welcome-especially elders who smoke.

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.

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

We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the last moment before quantum transformation. The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body.

We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.

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

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

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

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?

Even the elders can give a number of helpful hints.

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.

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

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.

Gathering of the Vibes is a gathering of the elders, a gathering of the youth, a gathering of family

One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people of rank. It is disagreeable to listen to.

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

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

The playthings of our elders are called business.

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