Elders Quotes

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.

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

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.

I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can't thank God and the industry enough.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

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.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

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.

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

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

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.

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

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 did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.

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

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

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

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

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

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.