Top 312 Elders Quotes & Sayings

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

I have always listened to elders in my life.

Humans are born, small, weak and helpless. That's why we have family. And the elders of the family are the honoured guardians of our country's history. Unfortunately, in America, we, you know, lock those elders away out of view in nursing homes and go about our little lives. It's a great national shame and an irredeemable tragedy. Oh well.

Slow down and think about the lessons of the elders.

I look at my elders as the leaders.

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.

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

Like children, the elders are a burden. But unlike children, they offer no hope or promise. They are a weight and an encumbrance and a mirror of our own mortality. It takes a person of great heart to see past this fact and to see the wisdom the elders have to offer, and so serve them out of gratitude for the life they have passed on to us.

Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.

It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death.

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

In the past, when we were initially organizing to bring about changes, our elders had little or no political experience. However, today, most of those American Indian Movement organ-izers are the elders. They are quite adept at bringing attention to the public about any attacks upon our people.

I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

It is said that brother Joseph in his lifetime declared that the Elders of this Church should step forth at a particular time when the Constitution should be in danger, and rescue it, and save it. This may be so; but I do not recollect that he said exactly so. I believe he [Joseph] said something like this - that the time would come when the Constitution and the country would be in danger of an overthrow; and said he, If the Constitution be saved at all, it will be by the Elders of this Church. I believe this is about the language, as nearly as I can recollect it.

Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.

We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.

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.

I always believe that the elders in my family are the reason for my success.

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.

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand

I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say.

In the time of the seventh Fire new people will emerge. They will retrace their steps to find what was left by the side of the trail long ago. Their steps will take them to the Elders, who they will ask to guide them on their journey. But many of the Elders will have fallen asleep. They will awaken to this new time with nothing to offer. Some of the Elders will be silent out of fear. But most of the Elders will be silent because no one will ask anything of them.

White people don't seem to have many Elders. They do have a lot of oldsters.

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.

Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or self-destructive. Our social nature is such that we tend to meet the expectations of our elders. Whenever this reversal took place and our elders stopped expecting us to be social and expected us to be anti-social, just to put it in gross terms, that's when the real fall took place. And we're paying for it dearly.

For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.

I'm being respectful to my elders.

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

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.

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

The playthings of our elders are called business.

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.

A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.

As a teenager, I worked on Indian reservations, and it was such an incredible culture: the elders are so respected.

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

In Africa, villagers look up to elders; they are the moral voice of their community.

I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?

When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.

We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.

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

Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.

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

When a child becomes an adult . . . the elders are fearful. And for good reason . . . not we but they are the germinators of future generations. Will they leave us behind as we did our parents? Consign us to neatly paved retirement villages? Trample us in the dust as they go flying out to their new galaxies? We had better tie them down, flagellate them, isolate them in the family cocoon, . . . indoctrinate them into the tribal laws and make sure they kneel before the power of the elders.

Just as kids need to learn to respect their elders, we are a society that increasingly respects our youth.

You don't have to be one of the Elders. You don't have to be well known. You just have to be determined to care about people. That's all it takes.

Even the elders can give a number of helpful hints.

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

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

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

The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this one. There is also the argument that elders have "experience." The problem is that experience teaches fear of change. Experience kills imagination. Experience makes people conservative. What we are facing tomorrow requires the force of imagination, not wisdom from yesterday.

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

Everybody welcome-especially elders who smoke.

The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.