Age Respect Quotes

The prosperity of a country is in accordance with its treatment of the aged.

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say.

I'll always stand up for America's seniors so they can age with dignity.

A youth is to be regarded with respect.

When you get to be my age, baby, you have to pay time more respect.

Anybody over 40 is an older person. You better give them some respect.

I get much more respect, as befits my age. And I have nothing to complain about.

Just as kids need to learn to respect their elders, we are a society that increasingly respects our youth.

I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.

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

Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.

It's ridiculous to imagine you can stay young forever and live forever. It's taking away from young people. There's a beauty and respect in age. Magazines and media are disrespectful of age.

Few promises are more sacred than the ones we make to older Americans.

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

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

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

I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women, it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.

Don't accept or be crippled by the media hype that aging is bad or shameful.

I'm anti-ageism in the arts.

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

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

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

People say, 'Respect your elders,' but I always go, 'Respect your young people because they are our future.'