Toni Cade Bambara Quotes

Rise before the elderly.

Elders are the books of the young.

An old man in a house is a good sign in a house.

old folks is the nation.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Being seventy is not a sin.

It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

God has use for all the old people.

When you sit at the feet of an elder, it changes you.

I listen to the older people who talk to me. I call them my old heads, people with a lot of wisdom. They'll teach you a lot if you listen.

Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.

A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom.

Culture is coded wisdom

The old men know when an old man dies.

At 65, most of us still have a lot to give and a lot to contribute.

Probably the only thing that I really don't like about being an old guy is so many of the people who understand what we know are gone.

It's important to show love to the people that came before you.

I look at my elders as the leaders.

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.