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God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best and love us most and will not leave one thing undone for our eternal welfare. Should we not love them for it and honor them first? -- Ezra Taft Benson
Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice! -- Charlotte Mary Yonge
The world was fair, the mountains tall In Elder Days before the fall... -- J. R. R. Tolkien
No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will. -- J. K. Rowling
Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me! -- Plutarch
Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys. -- John Henry Carver
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
Have you any idea how to wake a hibernating Elder?" Machiavelli shook his head. "Mars, what about you? Any advice?" "Yes. Don't. -- Michael Scott
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
You would make a great teacher. (Grace) Commander to teacher. Why not call me Cato the Elder, and really insult me while you're at it? (Julian) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
By the way, all joking aside, do I call you Ghastly or Elder Bespoke?' 'You can call me whatever you like.' Vex nodded. 'Thank you, Gladys. -- Derek Landy
[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't. -- Will Cuppy
On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet. -- Orson Pratt
On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet -- Orson Pratt
An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est. -- Benjamin Franklin
Elder Neal A. Maxwell suggests that the prime reason the Savior personally acts as the gatekeeper of the celestial kingdom is not to exclude people, but to personally welcome and embrace those who have made it back home. -- Tad R. Callister
Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and a man who defied his party on tax increases while imposing budget restrictions on the Democrats. -- Joe Klein
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
Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves. -- Calvin Peete
Elder mocked me for praying once, and i spent an hour berating him for that. He ended up throwing up his hands, laughing, and telling me i could believe whatever i wanted if i was going to hold onto my beliefs so hard. -- Beth Revis
There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder. -- Andrew Tobias
So what does that actually mean?' 'To be honest, Ghastly, I haven't a bull's notion.' 'Elder Bespoke should be addressed by his full title,' Tipstaff said. 'Of course,' Skulduggery said. 'To be honest, Your Highness, I haven't a bull's notion. -- Derek Landy
I'm a huge South Park fan, loved Avenue Q and can not wait to work with Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Bobby Lopez and Casey Nicholaw. Elder Price is an amazing role and I am so excited to take The Book of Mormon across the country. -- Gavin Creel
The vampire's true appearance was grotesque--but it wasn't as bad as some of the things I had seen in my day. Some demons were a lot worse, and some of the Elder Things could rip your mind apart just by letting you look at them -- Jim Butcher
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. -- Gustave Flaubert
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization. -- Orson F. Whitney
I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences. -- Jane Fonda
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. -- Earl Wilson
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. -- Francis Bacon
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. -- John Updike
You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers. -- Pope John Paul II
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. -- Joseph Addison
I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories. -- Hilary Mantel
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I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it. -- Anne Hutchinson
As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young. -- Alice Walker
Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother. -- Charles Perrault
But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream. -- Indra Nooyi
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. -- Alice Walker
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. -- Benjamin Franklin
I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam. -- Sun Myung Moon
Life itself has so much politics, why should I make it my profession? I'm just a politician's son, not a politician myself. Two politicians, that's my dad and elder brother, in the family are enough. I'm happy doing my own stuff in Bollywood. -- Riteish Deshmukh
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Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents - they've been replaced by a hipster mom n' pop who get busted necking in the car. -- Diablo Cody
Because of the earlier loss of the two elder siblings, my brother and I lived a very pampered and protected life. Nursemaids kept constant watch. With my parents busy at dinner parties and social events, we only met them as if for a daily royal audience. -- Charles K. Kao
The 'crownd' is still the unit, the favourite coin of the labourers, especially the elder folk. They use the word something in the same sense as the dollar, and look with regret upon the gradual disappearance of the broad silver disc with the figure of 'St. Gaarge' conquering the dragon. -- Richard Jefferies
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges. -- Taslima Nasrin
The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person - it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven't changed. Your body's changing. -- James Hillman
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
As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age. -- Mason Cooley
I'm comfortable moving into the role of elder person. -- George W. Bush
My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad. -- Bill Forsyth
A young man not yet, an elder man not at all. -- Francis Bacon
Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries -- John Cleese
The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. -- Jane Austen
An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead. -- Robert Bly
He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever. -- Michael Foot
Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is. -- John Donne
As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay. -- Mason Cooley
Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age. -- Elizabeth I
I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter. -- Burton Richter
The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps. -- Mary Shelley
I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister. -- Lawrence R. Klein
I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister. -- Lawrence R. Klein
My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother. -- Geoffrey Wilkinson
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible. -- T. S. Eliot
When he breathed he truly was Australia's greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians. -- Noel Pearson
In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are. -- Robert Bly
To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting. Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me. -- Michael Stipe
When each elder or pastor has his will aligned with the Lord's, we waste no time arguing for our own. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. -- James Russell Lowell
The Tsarnaev brothers, the elder brother made a public call to jihad and the [Barack] Obama administration didn't target it. -- Ted Cruz
A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve. -- John F. Kennedy
In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother. -- John Ortberg
You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers -- Pope John Paul II
There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother. -- George Bernard Shaw
Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else. -- Oscar Wilde
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. -- Rudyard Kipling
The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time. -- Hector Hugh Munro
Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down. -- Jodi Picoult
If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. -- Joseph Addison
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
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
Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother's elder brother. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
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. -- Alice Walker
Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter'd in one day, and I the elder and more terrible. -- William Shakespeare
Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause. -- Matthew Simpson
Apparently deciding Charles's brief introduction wasn't good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. â??Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Annaâ?? -- Patricia Briggs
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
We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land! -- Yasser Arafat
It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away. -- John Wilkins
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. -- Brigham Young
Respect those elder to you in years, in knowledge and spiritual attainment and act with love and compassion with those who are younger or less fortunate than you. -- Shri Radhe Maa
At about the age of ten, my friends and I discovered the joys of sitting in graveyards drinking merrydown cider and kissing and stealing our elder siblings' records. -- Beth Orton
No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before. -- Jonathan Swift
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
Something happens when you become an elder rock & roller and you're still functioning. People start to give you awards and recognize achievements. It's the life achievement period of your career. -- Geddy Lee
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
Since my childhood, I saw my elder brothers playing cricket and that is what built my passion around it. I was enrolled in school but all my attention was on cricket. -- Shahid Afridi
From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream -- Indra Nooyi
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
I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age. -- Nora Johnson
The whole world is a large Niepokalanow where the Father is God, the mother the Immaculata, the elder brother the Lord Jesus in all the tabernacles of the world, and the younger brothers the people. -- Maximilian Kolbe
Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with 'elder brothers' too. -- Timothy Keller

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