Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
In every country and region, there are practices and ways of living and culture that have been handed down from ancestors. Naturally, I feel that these should be respected.
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.
The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.
To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it.
Where the elderly are not honored, there is no future for the young.
Respect the past; you never know how it may affect you.
My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.
I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.
I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.
