Elders Quotes - Page 5

• A lot of women make choices based on how they saw their mother's choices working out, how they saw the choices of the women elders in their lives working out. There's some rebellion in that, but there's also some deep reflection.

  Ariel Gore

  Mother, Reflection, Work Out

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• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  Wade Davis

  Lonely, Children, Fate

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• 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

  Character, Boys, Men

  Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”

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• Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Race, Elderly

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.432

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• You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience–twenty times. And never resent the advantage of experience your elders have. Recall that they have paid for this experience in the coin of life, and have emptied a purse that cannot be refilled.

  Trevanian

  Fall, Errors, Years

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• It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.

  Russell Means

  Strong, Effort, Way

  "I Am Not a Leader": Russell Means’ 1980 Mother Jones Cover Story, www.motherjones.com.

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• Personally, I am more than ever inclined to believe that the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion are genuine. Without them I do not see how one could explain things that are happening today. More than ever, I think the Jews are at the bottom of all our troubles.

  Nesta Helen Webster

  Believe, Thinking, Zion

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• I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production.

  Jennifer Garner

  Opposites, Looks, Way

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• For no sooner had I begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough ], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frazer, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact sister studies, and I became bound to the service of Frazerian anthropology.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Science, Biographies, Golden

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• Fr. Amphilochios, the geronta or elder on the island of Patmos when I first stayed there, would have been in full agreement. Do you know, he said, that God gave us one more commandment, which is not recorded in Scripture? It is the commandment love the trees. Whoever does not love trees, so he believed, does not love God. When you plant a tree, he insisted, you plant hope, you plant peace, you plant love, and you will receive God's blessing.

  Kallistos Ware

  Christian, Blessing, Islands

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• Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency

  Carlos Fuentes

  Children, Ignorance, Strange

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• Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.

  John Donne

  Littles, Twins, Truth And Falsehood

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.411

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• Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

  Plutarch

  Men, Differences, Bravery

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• Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is very much in their interest to discover the weaknesses of their elders.

  Allan Bloom

  Children, Character, Weakness

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd told Taker before the promo that I was gonna stick it to him and he told me to go for it. However, I crossed the line and insulted him by saying what I said. I can't believe the lack of respect I showed him and so many of the other guys in the locker room during my first month in the company, especially since I knew how important the hierarchy of the business was (and still is). Respect your elders.

  Chris Jericho

  Believe, Insulted Him, Wwe

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

  Steve Kimock

  Gathering, Vibes, Youth

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• Do not be irritated either with those who sin or those who offend; do not have a passion for noticing every sin in your neighbour, and for judging him, as we are in the habit of doing. Everyone shall give an answer to God for himself. Everyone has a conscience; everyone hears God's Word, and knows God's Will either from books or from conversation with other people. Especially do not look with evil intention upon the sins of your elders, which do not regard you; "to his own master he standeth or falleth." Correct your own sins, amend your own life.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Book, Passion

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• I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Christian, School, Sunday

  "Dick Van Dyke talks to one of our grandmas about his new book on aging, Keep Moving". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to study, in sturdy defiance of the male elders of the family, who protested and decided that I should be married off instead.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Mother, Males, Study

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

  Eugene O'Neill

  Funny, Children, Kissing

  1927 Tiberius. Lazarus Laughed, act 4, sc.1.

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• In many ways, the physical dimension of life becomes less important as the soul enlarges. In my late twenties, I was astonished by the elders with whom I began to spend most of my professional time - how vivacious so many of them were, once I looked beyond my negative bias.

  Wendy Lustbader

  Soul, Important, Twenties

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Opportunity, Expectations, Generations

  Joyce Carol Oates' address to graduating class at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, May 28, 2006.

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• Youngsters lack wisdom; elders lack energy! When wisdom and energy comes to gather, great things are destined to happen!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Energy, Great Things, Youngsters

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• What a learned idea! Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven. Now, let all who may hear these doctrines, pause before they make light of them, or treat them with indifference, for they will prove their salvation or damnation

  Brigham Young

  Brother, Jesus, Father

  Brigham Young (1977). “Journal of Discourses”, p.51, Рипол Классик

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• On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders.

  Dervla Murphy

  Children, Ambition, India

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