Intergenerational Respect Quotes

Great is great no matter the age.

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.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

My father was always respectful to my grandfather. I really wanted that to be known because I never saw him disrespect my grandfather, and I never saw them have a cross word.

I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

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

The culture means the younger generation respecting the OGs, but at the same time, bringing it all to the older generation to where they can relate.

A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.

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.

The least anyone can do is pay attention to their parents and people who are elder to them.

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.

I started to respect older actors when I was young and then contemporary actors later on. Then I learned respect for comedy. When I was first doing theatre, I thought of it as just a means to become Sarah Bernhardt or someone like that. But acting with young people has been a great learning experience.

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

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

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

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.

Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

I think there has always been an obsession with youth and beauty. What's missing is the equal obsession with respect for…older people…and their wisdom and knowledge and courage.

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better than their mothers can, and many things they can do better, but they have not yet lived long enough to be sure how successfully they will meet the major emergencies of life, which lie, sometimes quite creditably, behind their mothers.

The best security for old age: respect your children.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.