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Quotes About Elder

two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper
~ Jane Austen
advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great.
~ Jane Austen
A year and a day of study and spiritual practice offers students the chance to move at this natural pace in their learning. It gives them the opportunity to learn, just as the ancients did, through personal experience, trial and error—which are all guided by the experienced hand of a trained elder.
~ Timothy Roderick
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
~ Orson F. Whitney
Old One, the tenant said apologetically. It is none of my business and I ought to die, but after all they are the children of your elder brother's son who after all is the first in the next generation after you.
~ Pearl S. Buck
If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten for being old before thy time. LEAR. How's that? FOOL. Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.
~ William Shakespeare
For all that beauty that doth cover thee Is but the seemly raiment of my heart, Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me. How can I then be elder than thou art?
~ William Shakespeare
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
A man one year elder to you is one cunning year elder to you.
~ Unknown
Take her home. And- Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times, Myrnin said, much too sharply. I'm ancient. I'm not deaf.
~ Rachel Caine
I respect Kiran Bedi, she is like my elder sister.
~ Arvind Kejriwal
My eldest brother is six years older than me.
~ Lewis Capaldi
His expression is intense but gentle, a combination of a wise elder and a stuffed animal, and it comes with a message:
~ Lori Gottlieb
Doesn't every town in America have an old-timer called The Professor? That duffer who knows everything and everybody, as long as they are dead.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
Who would have ever thought a top college like RISD would invite a filth elder like myself to set an example to its students?
~ John Waters
The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel.
~ Chinese saying
But Amy, " Elder says. "Space suits!
~ Beth Revis, A Million Suns
Nature, our father and mother, gave us all we have got. The state, our elder brother, swipes the lot.
~ Piet Hein
He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all
~ Unknown
Both Britain's most distinguished earlier war leaders, Pitt the Elder and Younger, were responsible for graver strategic follies than himself.
~ Max Hastings
Have you any idea how to wake a hibernating Elder?" Machiavelli shook his head. "Mars, what about you? Any advice?" "Yes. Don't.
~ Michael Scott
Megalodons," Prometheus announced, pulling the Rukma higher and higher, little fountains of water spilling from the leaks in its sides. "They were at least thirty feet long!" Scathach said. "I know," replied the Elder. "They must have been babies.
~ Michael Scott
He smiled at the sudden image of Prometheus tossing cars from one side of the bridge to the other to build his barrier. He heard the tiny tinkle of glass and wondered if being tossed across the Golden Gate Bridge by an Elder was covered by insurance.
~ Michael Scott
Yet, the elders said, at times the world became too predictable and the challenge began to go out of life. Without challenge, life had no meaning.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi