Top 250 Elder Quotes & Sayings

My granddad was an elder at our church, so it was a big part of my life growing up.

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

I'm comfortable moving into the role of elder person.

I have become a mashi now, as my elder sister has delivered a baby girl.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

I have acted with Rajinikanth as his elder brother in 'Uttar Dakshin,' and since then, we have been close.

My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.

My best memories in life are with my elder sister Priyanka Tiwari and my brother Aishwarya Tripathi.

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

There were reports that my elder daughter Ashwami was in 'Dabangg 3,' but she is a chef, and never wanted to be an actor.

Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries.

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.

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.

Ground elder, introduced by the Romans as a vegetable, is difficult to get rid of because it regrows from the smallest trace of root.

I have four elder sisters, and being the youngest, I was pampered.

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"

When you sit at the feet of an elder, it changes you.

In English, there is one word for sister. In Chinese, there are two separate words, for elder and younger sister. This is actually a translation problem because if you see the word sister, you don't know how to translate it to Chinese because you don't know if it's an elder sister or younger.

My elder sister Saraswati is my inspiration.

I'm interested in elder justice and what we can do about elder abuse and neglect.

Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.

An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

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.

I respect Kiran Bedi, she is like my elder sister.

I'm always concerned that I'm insulting the elder statesmen on the set by my crass behavior.

When he breathed, he truly was Australia’s greatest white elder and friend without peer of the original Australians.

The least anyone can do is pay attention to their parents and people who are elder to them.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

My elder brother and sister were both sporty and academic, and I think, subconsciously, I knew I couldn't go down that avenue.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Rahul's my elder brother and I feel good to have someone in the industry who has helped me out.

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

I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.

To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting. Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.

Anything I do in life, the first person I share it with is my elder brother. He always tells me the way to take it forward.

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

I definitely get the sense that I'm an elder statesman, but I don't know if there's an impact - and I'm not saying that in a naïve way. I don't know. I think anybody who's been doing it for 25 years is going to be considered an elder statesman. But I don't know if I've impacted anyone.

There needs to be an order of office, but in every single office that is presented in the Scriptures there is the personal emphasis within that legal concept. In the Church the elder is an office-bearer. But both the preaching elders and the ruling elders are "ministers," and the word "minister" is a personal relationship, it does not speak of dominance. There is to be order in the Church, but the preaching elder or the ruling elder is to be a minister, with a loving personal relationship with those who are before him, even when they are wrong and need admonition.

Niepokalanow is a home like Nazareth. The Father is God the Father, the mother and mistress of the home is the Immaculata, the firstborn son and our brother is Jesus in the most Holy Sacrament of the altar. All the younger brothers try to imitate the elder Brother in love and honor towards God and the Immaculata, our common parents, and from the Immaculata they try to love the divine elder Brother, the ideal of sanctity who deigned to come down from heaven to be incarnated in her and to live with us in the tabernacle.

The world was fair, the mountains tall In Elder Days before the fall.

One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.

The Tsarnaev brothers, the elder brother made a public call to jihad and the [Barack] Obama administration didn't target it.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

When each elder or pastor has his will aligned with the Lord's, we waste no time arguing for our own.

Shilpa is not just an actor, but my elder sister. I am very happy with her success.

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

No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.

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.

I am an elder, and I am delighted to be an elder. I would like to exhibit [and] explore it more - what an elder could mean in this time. But, I'd like to show that elders are good for us - that they can be good for us.

Harin Pathak is like my elder brother.

Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

Seventy is beautiful for me. I am truly, at last, an elder.

Salman is like my elder brother. So is Sohail bhai. They have been a great help to me in terms of my career.