Elders Quotes - Page 9

• All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark he saw dots of colors behind closed eyes, clenched fists, put his tongue out at his elder brother.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Brother, Lying, Eye

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• Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world

  Utah Phillips

  Song, Struggle, Bridges

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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