Elders Quotes - Page 10

• Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.

  Chinua Achebe

  Kings, Children, Hands

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jul 05, 2014

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• 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

  Ideas, Advice, Mars

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• In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution of the United States would hang by a single thread, but be saved by the elders of Israel. I hope you will read those sources so you will be well-informed as to this prophecy and be prepared to do your part in its fulfillment.

  Ernest L. Wilkinson

  Israel, United States, Utterance

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• Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.

  Aldous Huxley

  Meaningful, Country, Children

  "Brave New World Revisited". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 11 (p. 106), 1958.

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• Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"

  Plutarch

  Leisure, Should

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". Book by Plutarch. "32 Dionysius". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Lovely, Looks, Stories

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• [Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way.

  Will Cuppy

  Years, Whales, Two

  "The Whale". "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.

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• Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.

  Will Cuppy

  Eruption, Would Be, Footnotes

  "Birds Who Can't Even Fly". "How to Attract the Wombat". Book by Will Cuppy, 1949.

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• I certainly don't think we [The Elders organization] are oracles but I would hope that over our lifetimes we have accumulated some useful experience and perhaps even a modicum of wisdom! We don't have all the answers.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Organization, Oracles

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as much more than interesting historical documents from centuries past. But read in aggregate, all that pain piles up. Essentially, Elder has amassed a collection of what people say when they know they are going to die, the final product of what could be seen as psychological torture.

  Jonathan Messinger

  Pain, Past, Men

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• Our challenge is to unselfishly sacrifice all that we have been given, including our will. Elder Neal A. Maxwell rightly said: “The submission of one’s will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God’s altar. The many other things we ‘give’ … are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

  Robert K. Dellenbach

  Sacrifice, Giving, Challenges

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• A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Delight, Moral

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.943, Simon and Schuster

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

  William Brewster

  Law, Age, Church

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• A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.

  Confucius

  Home, Youth, Respectful

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.6, BookCaps Study Guides

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• What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

  Umberto Eco

  Elderly, Honor, Panic

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everybody welcome-especially elders who smoke.

  Jacob de Jager

  Elderly, Welcome, Smoke

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• 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

  Blessing, Years, Thank God

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.

  Li Peng

  Leadership, Party, Support

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• ...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even though boys' games are much the same, they are punished for them by their elders. No one pities either the boys or the men, though surely we deserve pity, for I cannot believe that a good judge would approve of the beatings I received as a boy on the ground that my games delayed my progress in studying subjects which would enable me to play a less creditable game later in life.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Boys, Men

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• The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

  Brenda Lee

  Honor, Cold, Music Business

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• Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.

  Anthony Hecht

  Children, Parent, Masonic

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• I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.

  Anne Hutchinson

  Lying, Should, Clear

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• It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the boat's stores were stacked. It was another perfect day - soft, mild and clear; and Harvey breathed to the very bottom of his lungs.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Eye, Heart, Blood

  Rudyard Kipling, General Press (2017). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.43, GENERAL PRESS

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• American Jewry makes any debate on whether the ‘Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion’ are an authentic document or a forgery irrelevant. American Jews do control the world.

  Gilad Atzmon

  Zion, World, Debate

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• I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.

  Burton Richter

  New York, Children, March

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