Bernard Lagat Quotes

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

We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.

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.

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

Miss not the discourse of the elders.

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.

I'm an older generation.

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 like older people; I think older people have a lot of flavor.

Our traditional way: take care of the old people.

I have a great affinity for senior citizens.

My dad is 20 years older than my mom. Growing up, I felt like he knew everything. I felt like, for every question I had, he had an answer.

I have always listened to elders in my life.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

In Africa, villagers look up to elders; they are the moral voice of their community.

For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.

Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture.

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 think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

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

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

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.

I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.