Quotes About Elders

World War I was the final straw. Youth turned on their elders for making a hash of the world. Older men's values had produced a cataclysm, and young men had paid with their lives. "The older generation has certainly pretty well ruined this world before passing it on to us," wrote a young man in the Atlantic Monthly of September 1920, expressing the prevailing sentiment. How could the younger generation, the idea went, possibly do any worse?

The last child, which is Islam, acknowledged his elders and gave them credit for the foundations that they laid before him.

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

I really don't know," the old lady brought out hesitatingly, "you see I've never sold the dead before.

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

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

in the past, respect for the wisdom of the elders was a central tenet of human societies ... whose elders served as keepers of the cultures' knowledge. But today, in technological countries such as ours, respect has faded into bare tolerance, as we demand that older people act, look, and talk young.

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

Do they always flirt with biblical quotes?" Asil asked Tad. In long-suffering tones, Tad said, "They can flirt with the periodic table or a restaurant menu. We've learned to live with it. Get a room, you guys." "Quiet, pup," said Adam with mock sternness. He gave my butt a promissory pat as he said, "Respect your elders.

The old woman sang of a time gone ahead, and of those already walking ahead of her on the pathway. Her eyes were reddened as though they bled. And her songs, like the pathways, were interweavings of times and places and of all that breathed between earth and sky.

You could pretty much eat dinner off the glare she gives me. "I'll thank you not to talk to your elders that way, boy.

Elders say that too much technology makes us slaves all over again.

Then Joseph went to bury his father, and all the servants of Pharaoh accompanied him—the elders of Pharaohís household and all the elders of the land of Egypt—

Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ëThe LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.

The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ëThe LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.í

Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites,

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him.

Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,

The elders of the congregation are to lay their hands on the bullís head before the LORD, and it shall be slaughtered before the LORD.

On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them stand there with you.

So Moses went out and relayed to the people the words of the LORD, and he gathered seventy of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.

Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed that Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but they never did so again.