Quotes About Elder

taking on the role not only of instructor but of trusted elder, guide, coach, leader, and perhaps sometimes friend.

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

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

While I still do a lot of horror, it doesn't feel to me like I'm repeating myself. I like to stay interested. I'm kind of turning into one of those elder statesmen, like a Vincent Price or a Donald Pleasence. I like to think of myself alongside those guys.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

Each and every Indian, man or woman, child or Elder, is a spirit-warrior.

The sometime minister for transhuman affairs, economic theoretician, then retired tribal elder of the polycognitive liberals is serious.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

A little brother may live to be a hundred, but he will always be a little brother.

The scent of elder bushes, the sporting prints in the hall, The croquet matches in summer, the handshake, the cough, the kiss, There is always a wicked secret, a private reason for this. —W. H. Auden

A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

In Celtic cultures, the young maiden was seen as the flower; the mother, the fruit; the elder woman, the seed. The seed is the part that contains the knowledge and potential of all the other parts within it.

Stories are gifts given by an elder to a younger person. Unfortunately, this gift is not given, nor received, as often today because many of our youth are occupied by television and the fast pace of modern-day living.

Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public property in riches and luxury.

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

If a man supervises but fails to nurture, it's possible that he's either a tyrant or an absentee landlord. Neither is fitting for a father, much less an elder.

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

I quite like being a 'comedy elder statesman.' I am a big fan, I go to watch loads of new comics, and I like the fact that they don't go, 'Why are you here?'

Hillel the Elder, author, in the first century before Christ, of the ethic of reciprocity: That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow.

Perhaps, after all, this world was made of dreams, and an old man had merely found the words for them.

Franklin had been serving his country, as it headed toward revolution, in roles befitting a man of his age: diplomat, elder statesman, sage, and dozing delegate.

In Vino Veritas. The classy thing to say when you've had too much to drink and have just said something that is decidedly not classy, in vino veritas has been employed as a mea culpa of sorts for thousands of years. In the first century AD, Pliny the Elder referred to the "common proverb that in wine, there is truth in vino veritas."

Reason has an elder sister, never forget that. She's called Intuition.