The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
The earth is over a million years old; respect your elders.
I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my parents worked.
Conscience defined by the elders, passed on to the next generations.
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.
Treasure the wisdom of old age. Learn from elder people and be wise.
In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.
Enrollments in American colleges tripled between 1955 and 1970, 250% in the Soviet Union, 400% in France, and more than 200% in China by 1965. Gaddis writes, "What governments failed to foresee was that more young people, plus, more education, when c...
The world was fair, the mountains tall In Elder Days before the fall...
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
In Western Civilization, our elders are books.
I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged...
Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
