Elders Quotes

• 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
  • Humanity
  • Interest
  • Pressure

• As they were leading me up, I looked up and around the galleries and I could feel the whole Aboriginal race, of those who had gone before, were all up there, and I could visualise, I could hear voices and amongst those voices was the voice of my grandfather saying, 'It's alright now boy, you are finally in the council with the Australian Elders. Everything is now going to be alright.'

  

  Neville Bonner
  • Grandfather
  • Council
  • Alright

• I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Perfect

• For the first thirty years of my life I exercised very little, and I smoked cigarettes for ten or twelve years, and I ate junk food. And I began to see some elders in my community's health decline, and I didn't want that to happen to me.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Food
  • Community

• I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can't thank God and the industry enough.

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • God
  • Family
  • Enough

• Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.

  

  William Brewster
  • Age
  • Law
  • Church

• I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Scene
  • London
  • Clubs

• Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Country
  • Summer
  • Forget

• Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World
  • Progress
  • Depends

• Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn, Than women's are.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Husband
  • Boys

• I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Eye
  • Possibility
  • Behinds

• It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to study, in sturdy defiance of the male elders of the family, who protested and decided that I should be married off instead.

  

  Dalia Grybauskaite
  • Mother
  • Study
  • Married

• A lot of people think medicine hunting is all Chris trekking through the jungle. Or, for that matter, the chiefs and (male) elders he works with. The men get the headlines, but it's the women behind the scenes who are doing the planting and harvesting and chopping.

  

  Zoe Helene
  • People
  • Scene
  • Hunting

• We want to make sure, ... that you and the elders of this community will say after all this is over that this was worth it.

  

  George Shinn
  • Community
  • Worth
  • Elders

• Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Children
  • Waiting
  • Listening

• In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple.... Somebody nominated me for president of the youth center. The elders began getting nervous, because I was an avowed atheist by that time.... I thought nature itself was so interesting that I didn't want it distorted like that. And so I gradually came to disbelieve the whole religion.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Kids
  • Interesting
  • President

• History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • History
  • Social
  • Students

• There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • People
  • Environment
  • Social