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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. -- James A. Baldwin
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. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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. -- Gilad Atzmon
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. -- Jessamyn West
What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary? -- Derek Landy
The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known. -- Patricia Briggs
Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires. -- Toba Beta
The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength. -- Michael Scott
Setrakus is more or less invincible. Only Pittacus Lore, the most powerful of all the Lorien Elders, would have been able to defeat him. -- Pittacus Lore
Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent. -- Richard Allen
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. -- Snoop Dogg
I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause. -- Alexander Pope
I certainly don't think we [The Elders organization] are oracles but I would hope that over our lifetimes we have accumulated some useful experience and perhaps even a modicum of wisdom! We don't have all the answers. -- Desmond Tutu
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If the Son was begotten by the Holy Ghost, it would be very dangerous to baptize and confirm females, and give the Holy Ghost to them, lest he should beget children, to be palmed upon the Elders by the people, bringing the Elders into great difficulties -- Brigham Young
You won't be surprised to know, therefore, that the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses are the same organisation at the top level where the Elders of the Mormons and the leaders of the Watchtower Society operate a very different agenda to the one their followers believe. -- David Icke
Maurice Kenny stands at the forefront of his generation. Few writers of any ethnicity are destined to be remembered in the mainstream of literary history; I believe that Kenny's contributions as a poet are among those few. He writes from the center, as our Elders would say. -- Wendy Rose
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
For years we have heard of the role the Elders could play in saving the Constitution from total destruction. But how can the Elders be expected to save it if they have not studied it and are not sure if it is being destroyed or what is destroying it. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. -- Henry Adams
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. -- Pearl S. Buck
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. -- Anouk Aimee
The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders. -- Brenda Lee
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. -- Erik Erikson
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. -- Elvis Presley
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. -- Margaret Mead
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. -- Margaret Mead
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. -- Ben Lindsey
I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. -- Akshay Kumar
Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker. -- Lisa Ling
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
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. -- Louis Kronenberger
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. -- Maggie Kuhn
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Younger Arabs are much less satisfied with education in the region than their elders, and are more comfortable networking and communicating via digital means. -- Joe Saddi
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
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. -- John Piper
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. -- Li Peng
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. -- Jean Liedloff
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. -- Joshua Lederberg
I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you. -- Karisma Kapoor
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. -- Doris Lessing
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. -- Pearl S. Buck
I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens. -- Quincy Jones
As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected. -- Jenna Morasca
I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed too old, and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection. -- Henry Rollins
Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: 'Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors.' Everyone knows this. -- Joyce Carol Oates
We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to time turn our gaze upon our elders. We shall wish to read in their countenances approval of our actions. -- Jose Rizal
Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns. -- Nelson Mandela
A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years. -- Saint Ambrose
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies. -- Confucius
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
It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle. -- Gail Collins
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. -- Marian Wright Edelman
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. -- George Bernard Shaw
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates
Everybody welcome-especially elders who smoke. -- Jacob de Jager
Don't leave your elders as Fallen Leaves. -- Pawan Prakash Tirkey
In Western Civilization, our elders are books. -- Gary Snyder
The playthings of our elders are called business. -- Saint Augustine
Even the elders can give a number of helpful hints. -- George Ade
Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders. -- Thomas Haden Church
Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations. -- Toba Beta
Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people. -- Charles Hodge
What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action. -- Umberto Eco
Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy. -- Zakes Mda
A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them. -- Jonas Salk
A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders. -- Confucius
Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys. -- Penelope Lively
Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders. -- George Bernard Shaw
Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright. -- Vera Nazarian
When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you'd best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously. -- Nalo Hopkinson
Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance. -- Corrie Ten Boom
I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody. -- George Burns
In war, our elders may give the ordersbut it is the young who have to fight. -- T.H. White
Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life. -- Louis Cozolino
In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight. -- T.H. White
Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures. -- Achy Obejas
Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations. -- Nellie L. McClung
For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength. -- Gautama Buddha
there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing. -- Margaret Mead
Youngsters lack wisdom; elders lack energy! When wisdom and energy comes to gather, great things are destined to happen! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age. -- William Brewster
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. -- James A. Baldwin
One of the things I enjoy about being young is learning from my elders without them giving direct advise. -- Unarine Ramaru
Gathering of the Vibes is a gathering of the elders, a gathering of the youth, a gathering of family -- Steve Kimock
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. -- Charlotte Mason
You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West. -- Bernard Lagat
I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. -- George Burns
Extend your commitment to your family members. Have respect for elders and be nice to them.they are your soft pillow -- Kishore Bansal
Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast. -- Archibald MacLeish
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. -- Eugene McCarthy
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
My plan includes Dependent Care Savings Accounts to encourage savings and help families meet their needs for caring for both children and elders. -- Donald Trump
I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods. -- Tina Ambani
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It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future. -- Nicolas Chamfort
It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death. -- Misty Upham
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. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. -- Socrates
Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile -- Anne Rice
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. -- Ray Lewis
Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings. -- Chinua Achebe
Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure. -- Lewis H. Lapham
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
One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right. -- Joseph Bruchac
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
If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders. -- James Hansen
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. -- Anthony Hecht
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
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. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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
I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye. -- Ray Bradbury
There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now. -- Carmen Agra Deedy
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. -- Abbott Lawrence Lowell
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. -- Abbott Lawrence Lowell
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. -- Plato

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