Maurice Flanagan Quotes

In Africa... age is not important over there. They don't care.

There are three basic fundamentals of Arab society, shame, honor, and revenge.

Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.

You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.

In India, the eldest has the most responsibility and the crown goes to him. The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could 'most talent' be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

I come from a generation which definitely treated anyone older and more successful with reverence. But it's much more democratic nowadays.

Old people have a much better time in India because they're respected.

I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

White people don't seem to have many Elders. They do have a lot of oldsters.

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant that a person was willing to interact politely with people of lower social ranks. In Jane Austen's world, a lady praised for her condescension was receiving a sincere compliment.

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.

That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.