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Quotes About Elders

Children are easily taught, for they readily accept and believe lies told by their elders.
~ Dee Hock
What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?
~ Derek Landy
Tanith: Serpine is used to the Elders taking forever to make their calm, thought-out decisions. So he won't be expecting anything as amazingly rash and reckless as this Ghastly: That'll teach him to underestimate stupid people.
~ Derek Landy
Skulduggery: What do you get if you kill the Elders? Stephanie: This sounds like a joke Skulduggery: Valkyrie -- Stephanie: I don't know Skulduggery: Yes, yes you do.. not think what would killing the Elders result in? Stephanie: Panic, fear? Three empty spaces in the Sanctuary - Skulduggery Pleasant
~ Derek Landy
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
~ Erik H. Erikson
Pastors are leaders, but they are to be a part of a plurality of elders that submit to each other and are held in check by the congregation. It is not wise for any one leader, apart from Christ Jesus, to be without accountability.
~ Jeffrey D. Johnson
15 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, 2 "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands before they eat." 3 He answered them, "And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? 4 For God said, * 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
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
You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.
~ Bernard Lagat
A lot of elders don't really like me in music because they just think I'm a little cheeky prick and I'm arrogant. I'm definitely cheeky, I'm definitely a prick and I'm definitely arrogant.
~ AJ Tracey
We at the Women's March tried intersectionality, and we were the group that said we're going to do it right, and we're going to defy our women-of-color elders who told us, 'We did this with the white woman before, and it doesn't work.'
~ Linda Sarsour
Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
~ Lisa Ling
We must ensure full access to all reproductive health services, including abortion. We must also provide for our aging population, ensuring our parents and grandparents have the care they need. We must defend Medicare, expand Social Security, and provide tax credits for families who care for their elders and loved ones with disabilities.
~ Deb Haaland
In the past 20 years of musical journey, what I realized is that one need to respect their teachers, elders and parents and their blessings are more than enough for one to reach success. I believe it as my success mantra.
~ M. Jayachandran
The newest pups always blame the elders of the pack.
~ Robert Jordan
The Elders always said I spoke an hour before I thought.
~ Robert Jordan
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
the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
~ Andy Rooney
are prone to ignore their elders' advice. We still love and hate, covet and desire. So we kill and maim and steal—not me, of course, but men who do not love HaShem's holy Law." "Only men?" "Women too. In truth, women would surely be as prone to sin as men, if
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
When we are young we all look through our elders, to see what lies beyond. And when we see what is there, we are the elders ourselves.
~ Angela Thirkell
All we have is the knowledge passed on to us by our elders, experiences we inculcate and hardly negate. But to bridge the generation gap, one needs to adapt to the new while retaining the goodness of the old.
~ Sonali Bendre
As a teenager, I worked on Indian reservations, and it was such an incredible culture: the elders are so respected.
~ Winona Ryder
If we don't do likewise, we'll soon have a sclerotic society that takes care of its elders at the expense of its youth.
~ Robert W. Fuller
He liked to make his hearers jump, now and then, and he said that our gravel pit was much the same sort of place as Gehenna. My elders thought this far-fetched, but I saw no reason why hell should not have, so to speak, visible branch establishments throughout the earth, and I have visited quite a few of them since.
~ Robertson Davies