Quotes About Elders

I got a lot of respect for my OGs, so when they ask me to do something, I do it.

I'm being respectful to my elders.

The young are not curious about their elders, they just accept them for what they are. But I wish now I could go back and ask her about her life, fill in all those gaps. But of course, you can't go back.

I was not the only one to die of the moral contagion, though perhaps I was the weakest of all. But all the past generation has grown up in an atmosphere of sanctimonious tranquillity, of forced respect to its elders, of lack of all individuality and dumbness.

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

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

When my brother and me got into performing in the late '40s and early '50s, it was a sensational opportunity to learn from our elders. Every show we played had a dancer, a comic, a juggler, a singer, an acrobat. I came to appreciate virtuosity in all forms of the business.

The office of presbyters is a permanent one.

Orang Jawa sujud berbakti kepada yang lebih tua, lebih berkuasa, satu jalan pada penghujung keluhuran. Orang harus berani mengalah, Gus.

Have not all Reformed ministers and elders subscribed a Reformed confession before God and his church, swearing to uphold, teach, and defend the same? If so, are we not all morally obligated to be confessional; if we are not, how did this happen?

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

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.

Susanna's music touched the bawdy stringsOf those white elders; but, escaping,Left only Death's ironic scraping.Now, in its immortality, it playsOn the clear viol of her memory,And makes a constant sacrament of praise.

Children are told to humor their elders who still believe in such things and have never had the scientific and technical training that would show them how incompatible such notions are with modern science.

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

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

You okay, there, Mr. Rat Man?" Minho asked. "My name is Assistant Director Janson," he replied, his voice low and strained, as if it was hard work to stay calm. His eyes never left Thomas. "Learn to show respect for your elders.

Jennie is very like a human child in challenging and testing her elders. I feel that R. wants to love Jennie, and wants Jennie to love her. She does not, I fear, have the right touch with Jennie. She is too cross and nervous, and she is overly attached to material objects. Jennie is very sensitive and has a mischievous streak in her. The combination is not good.

Clavain looked around the room, taking in the gruesome menagerie of wraithlike seniors, wizened elders and obscene glass-bottled end-state Conjoiners. They were all hanging on his answer, even the visible brains seeming to hesitate in their wheezing pulsations.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

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.

Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.