Faith Salie Quotes

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

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

My parents were from New England. It's very funny, but when I grew up, you always had to say, 'Yes, ma'am' and 'Yes, sir.'

I'm always concerned that I'm insulting the elder statesmen on the set by my crass behavior.

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

When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.

The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.

I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

Germany's hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school at six, graduate in their late 20s, and get their first proper jobs in their 30s. Adolescence can go on a long time. It is rare for anyone to achieve responsibility before their 50s.

The nice thing with the Arabs is that with age comes respect.

Older consumers don't want to be treated like teenagers; what's more, they don't want to believe they fall into any niche at all.

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

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

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

It is difficult to remember just how formal middle-class life was in the 1930's and '40s. I wore a suit and tie at home from the age of 18. One dressed for breakfast. One lived in a very formal way, and emotions were not paraded. And my childhood was not unusual.

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

If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn't pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room.

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

CEOs are called by their first names by young whippersnappers. That makes everybody uncomfortable. We need order and structure back in the workplace.

As long as cantankerous old people have existed, they have complained that kids nowadays don't seem to know anything.