Elders Quotes - Page 13

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

Robert Bly

Sibling, Thinking, People

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The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

Robert Bly

Distance, Adults, Miles

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In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.

Robert Bly

Sibling, Adults, Lost

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When an elder turns to face the dead, that means he turns away from facing the future and his own retirement in Phoenix, let's say. He turns and finds himself facing the children.

Robert Bly

Retirement, Children, Mean

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That some unevangelized men are saved, in the present life, by an extraordinary exercise of redeeming grace in Christ, has been the hope and belief of Christendom. It was the hope and belief of the elder Calvinists, as of the later.

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Exercise, Men, Grace

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There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

Terence McKenna

People, Hierarchy, Environment

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I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.

Andrew O'Hagan

Football, Brother, Boys

"I gave it my best shot" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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I see a couple of things missing. Any society, any community, even in the family, when the elders don't do their jobs, the youth suffer. We have no done our job. I'm saying anybody 55 and up. We didn't teach people the basic things.

Iyanla Vanzant

Jobs, Couple, People

"Iyanla Vanzant interview for fourth season of ‘Iyanla: Fix My Life’ returning Sept. 6". Interview with Rodney Ho, radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com. September 6, 2014.

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Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?

Barry Hannah

Children, Parent, Grew Up

Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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Whoever wants to approach prayer without a guide, and proudly thinks that he can learn from books, and won't go to an elder, is already halfway into delusion. But the Lord helps the humble, and if there is no experienced guide, and he goes to a confessor, whoever he may be, then the Lord will cover him because of his humility.

Silouan the Athonite

Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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This is written in the elder days as the Earth rides close to the rim of eternity, edging nearer to the dying Sun, into which her two inner companions of the solar system have already plunged to a fiery death. The Twilight of the Gods is history; and our planet drifts on and on into that oblivion from which nothing escapes, to which time itself may be dedicated in the final cosmic reckoning.

Clifford D. Simak

Twilight, Two, Dying

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Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearth-side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.

Thomas Hardy

Lonely, Loneliness, Oxen

Thomas Hardy (2009). “Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

Rome, Play, Burning

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He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.

Pliny the Younger

Gratitude, Book, Might

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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

Francis Bacon

Wise, Men, Answers

Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Punch 1

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These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it life and to those for whose life it is responsible. Thus, reconciling lifelong generativity and stagnation involves the elder in a review of his or her own years of active responsibility for nurturing the next generations, and also in an integration of earlier-life experiences of caring and of self-concern in relation to previous generations.

Erik Erikson

Responsibility, Caring, Years

Erik H. Erikson, Joan M. Erikson, Helen Q. Kivnick (1994). “Vital Involvement in Old Age”, p.73, W. W. Norton & Company

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

Francis Bacon

Wise, Children, Mean

Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Punch 1

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History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.

James Thurber

Government, Becoming, Scratches

James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mean, Men, People

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.285, Library of America

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The best gift for an actor is the love of the fans. Many make sweet cards, write letters and even come and meet me wherever I am in India. The love and blessings of your elders is also always cherished, but the extra mile that the fans go to is memorable.

Abhishek Bachchan

Sweet, Memorable, Writing

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A lot of people think medicine hunting is all Chris trekking through the jungle. Or, for that matter, the chiefs and (male) elders he works with. The men get the headlines, but it's the women behind the scenes who are doing the planting and harvesting and chopping.

Zoe Helene

Men, Thinking, Hunting

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In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People.

Robert Bly

Men, Echoes, Other Worlds

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When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect — but do not believe him. Never put your trust into anything but your own intellect. Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair, no matter whether he is a Nobel laureate — may be wrong. The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical — always think for yourself.

Linus Pauling

Believe, Thinking, Years

"Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker". Book edited by Clifford Mead and Thomas Hager, 2001.

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In the days of Joseph [Smith] it was considered a great privilege to be permitted to speak to a member of Congress, but twenty-six years will not pass away before the Elders of this Church will be as much thought of as the kings on their thrones.

Brigham Young

Kings, Years, Passing Away

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After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space -- to another stopping place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.

H. P. Lovecraft

Men, Vegetables, Civilization

H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)”, p.1404, Delphi Classics

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