Elders Quotes - Page 10

• Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Time, Elderly

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• 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, Giving, Events

  "Booker winner Hilary Mantel on dealing with history in fiction" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2009.

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• If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders.

  James Hansen

  Nature, Climate, World

  "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them". www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2009.

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• The devil knows that if the elders of Israel should ever wake up, they could step forth and help preserve freedom and extend the gospel. Therefore the devil has concentrated, and to a large extent successfully, in neutralizing much of the priesthood. He has reduced them to Sleeping Giants.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Sleep, Israel, Devil

  Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

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• Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

  Jodi Picoult

  Animal, Turns, Humans

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.

  Homer

  Kings, Hate, Men

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• Maybe a man in a million could unite the Hallows, Harry. I was fit only to possess the meanest of them, the least extraordinary. I was fit to own the Elder Wand, and not to boast of it, and not to kill with it. I was permitted to tame and to use it, because I took it, not for gain, but to save others from it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Use, Gains

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• And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

  Khalil Gibran

  Cities, Evil, Way

  Khalil Gibran, “Good And Evil XXII”

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• 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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• Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adolescents will cling to it.

  David Eddings

  Fashion, People, Costumes

  David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1997). “Polgara the Sorceress”, Del Rey

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• What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?

  Derek Landy

  Space, Three, Sanctuary

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant -”, p.182, HarperCollins UK

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• So what does that actually mean?' 'To be honest, Ghastly, I haven't a bull's notion.' 'Elder Bespoke should be addressed by his full title,' Tipstaff said. 'Of course,' Skulduggery said. 'To be honest, Your Highness, I haven't a bull's notion.

  Derek Landy

  Mean, Titles, Doe

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• Mortality is a school of suffering and trials. We are here that we may be educated in a school of suffering and of fiery trials, which school was necessary for Jesus, our Elder Brother, who, the scriptures tell us, ‘was made perfect through suffering.’ It is necessary that we suffer in all things, that we may be qualified and worthy to rule, and govern all things, even as our Father in Heaven and His eldest son, Jesus.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Jesus, Brother, Father

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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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• By the way, all joking aside, do I call you Ghastly or Elder Bespoke?' 'You can call me whatever you like.' Vex nodded. 'Thank you, Gladys.

  Derek Landy

  Vex, Way, Call Me

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• Setrakus is more or less invincible. Only Pittacus Lore, the most powerful of all the Lorien Elders, would have been able to defeat him.

  Pittacus Lore

  Powerful, Able, Defeat

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• Look Rushtail," Crowfeather was meowing frustratedly "WindClan is gathering farther down the hill. If you stay here, you'll get mixed up with ThunderClan" "So?" ThunderClan never did me any harm," rasped the elder "I'm not moving a pawstep from here, young fellow, until I've had something to eat" Crowfeather rolled his eyes " Great StarClan

  Erin Hunter

  Moving, Eye, Gathering

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• I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.

  George Burns

  Happy Birthday

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• The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength.

  Michael Scott

  Weakness, Emotion, Contempt

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.224, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Apparently deciding Charles’s brief introduction wasn’t good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. “Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna—

  Patricia Briggs

  Brother, Nice, Drs

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Cry Wolf”, p.59, Penguin

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• I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

  Pablo Casals

  Integrity, Men, Age

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

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• Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.

  Vera Nazarian

  World, Young

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• Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a floating, cosmic bash shouting its way through the streets of the universe, flinging the sweetness of its cassations to every window, pounding at every door in a hilarity beyond all liking and happening, until the prodigals come out at last and dance, and the elder brothers finally take their fingers out of their ears.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Brother, Doors, Grace

  Robert Farrar Capon (1997). “Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace”, p.72, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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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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