Quotes about Elders

Cassius Dio

Though a breach was made in the wall by means of engines, nevertheless the capture of the place did not immediately follow even then. On the contrary, the defenders killed great numbers [of Romans] who tried to crowd through the opening and they also set fire to some of the buildings nearby, hoping thus to check the further progress of the Romans. Nevertheless, the soldiers, because of their superstition, did not immediately rush in but at last, under compulsion from Titus, they made their way inside. Then the Jews defended themselves much more vigorously than before, as if they had discovered a piece of rare good fortune in being able to fight near the Temple and fall in its defense.” The populace was stationed below in the court and the elders on the steps and the priests in the Sanctuary itself. And though they were but a handful fighting against a far superior force, they were not conquered until part of the Temple was set on fire. Then they met their death willingly, some throwing themselves on the swords of the Romans, some slaying one another, others taking their own lives and still others leaping into the flames. And it seemed to everybody and especially to them that so far from being destruction, it was victory and salvation and happiness to them that they perished along with the Temple. While the holy house (The Temple) was on fire, everything was plundered that came to hand, and ten thousand of those that were caught were slain; nor was there a commiseration of any age…but children and old men…and priests, were all slain in the same manner….The flame was also carried a long way, and made an echo, together with the groans of those who were slain…one would have thought the whole city would have been on fire. Nor can one imagine anything greater and more terrible than this noise.

Describing the conquest and destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple in 70 AD.

J. K. Rowling

No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.

Erik Erikson

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Margaret Mead

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

Kevin Knox

My family's big on discipline, respect, manners, make sure that we respect our elders. So that's kind of what the military is. You have to say, 'Yes sir,' 'No ma'am,' 'Yes ma'am.' All that stuff. That's kind of the mold my dad has for my brothers and I.

Chinua Achebe

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.

Morgan Wallen

My 91-year-old great-grandma would get out of her chair and whip me if I start acting like I'm some star or something like that.

George Burns

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.

James Baldwin

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Nellie McClung

Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.

Alice Walker

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

Gary Snyder

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

Jacques Cousteau

The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this one. There is also the argument that elders have "experience." The problem is that experience teaches fear of change. Experience kills imagination. Experience makes people conservative. What we are facing tomorrow requires the force of imagination, not wisdom from yesterday.

KRS-One

Just black executives have a bias against older artists. We don't respect our elders. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just have that problem, and it's something that I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to conquer.

Gilbert Arenas

I look at my elders as the leaders.

Doug Stanhope

Old people always tell you: 'When you've been around as long I have, then you can argue.' As soon as they're ripped off, it's a different story.

Plato

It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.

Plutarch

Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"

Bernard Lagat

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

Metta World Peace

I wish I would have listened, when I was a kid, to my elders or people who had my best interests at heart, and then I wish I would have been more conscious at that age also.

Saint Augustine

The playthings of our elders are called business.

Nalo Hopkinson

When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.

Richard Branson

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

William Shakespeare

The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

Heather Matarazzo

I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.

Elders Quotes