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Blessed are you when you enjoyed the company of elderly people. They are always ready to share their rich experience and wisdom with young people.
In Western Civilization, our elders are books.
It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you'd best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.
What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.
There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.
The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.
It is gracious to have old people full of vitality and endowed with wisdom in our society.
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.
Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.
They have lived life. They have experienced joy. They met comfort and they saw deception. Their lives have something for us! Young ones, go to the aged and ask them why their age?
Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.
Active wisdom
an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52]
Sometimes the wisdom of the elderly is equivalent to that of a child.
When you get rid of all the older people, you get rid of all the wisdom.
Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.
The old age comes very quickly; let us welcome it and find new joys and new pursuits not known in the youth!
Please don't get me wrong here. I'm not making fun of old people. In fact I think that's the goal of everybody here tonite. We all want to be an old person someday.
The young... are full of hope and discontent... And the old are those who were once discontented, but who have successfully smothered that flame and have found security and comfort in various ways.
Everyone knows that senior citizens are stupid
We all have a different image of what old is, and if you were exposed to senior citizens at a young age, as I was, it can color your soul with terror.
The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.
In the past, surviving into old age was uncommon, and those who did survive served a special purpose as guardians of tradition, knowledge, and history.
Few people know how to be old.
The old are in a second childhood.
Every 70-year-old needs a young person in their lives to mentor, and every 20-year-old needs a senior.
I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That's a high calling and it's a great responsibility.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
From the mouths of our elders comes a fountain of wisdom.
Aging is for people who don't know any better.
The old are a regular subject for sympathy.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
An old horse, an old bird, an old man, an old tree, they all represent a great survival in the jungle of cosmos; they deserve to be applauded and respected!
But even grown-ups have elders who know better.
Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
If thirty-two is old and decrepit, what does that make you, old man?" "Very valuable in the antique market." Dr.
Old. A viable die-able age.
Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.
Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard.
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
Senescence begins
And middle-age ends
The day your descendants
Outnumber your friends
Even the elders can give a number of helpful hints.
I don't talk to old people; they try to find ways to stay static. Young folks are the ones with the ideas and constantly moving forward.
Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.
I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.
Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose.
Treat the elderly as a nonrenewable resource; they care!
Love, care and treasure the elderly people in the society.
All the same, they [young, twenty-somethings] can't help feeling that the aged and even the infirm have somehow elected that condition ... or have as it were been assigned those roles ... so that they ... can play their youthful-energetic, all but immutable selves.
The old men know when an old man dies.
To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.
I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.
We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.
Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox.
The playthings of our elders are called business.
Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.
Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.
The old people must start talking and the young people must start listening.
I don't think of myself as old. Obviously I am - I have a free bus pass, I'm already a grandad, and my hip is giving me jip, so it's all telling me something I don't really want to hear.
Few know how to be old.
The nation faces the important challenge of embracing the new reality of a society getting older. There is plenty to do. Start with the importance of expanding our outlook in the way we look at work, learning, exercise and
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
Mainstream doctors are turned off by geriatrics, and that's because they do not have the faculties to cope with the Old Crock," Felix Silverstone,
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace.
Where the # elderly are not honored, there is no future for the young.
Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.
The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.
I see a couple of things missing. Any society, any community, even in the family, when the elders don't do their jobs, the youth suffer. We have no done our job. I'm saying anybody 55 and up. We didn't teach people the basic things.
We may be aware of small increments of getting older; we may meet an increasing number of people who make us uneasy with their youth; but the fact of being old ourselves comes as a surprise, and is often accompanied by the belief that there has been some mistake.
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.
Do not dismiss the words of the old;
they possess wisdom,
which comes only with age,
and often speak of things
that the young are too immature
to understand.
I am old now. So old. My sight fades, my muscles are weak, my piss dribbles, my bones ache, and I sit in the sun and fall asleep to wake tired.
It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.
The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years.
There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.
Though old and wise, yet still advise.
Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations
Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.
Respect elders; protect children. This I do believe. As a young man it is sometimes, in a charitable sense, difficult to shake the sentiment that every elderly person is my grandparent, and every child is my child.
Quite apart from anything else, the rule of money sees to it that we shall be governed largely by the old - that is, by people utterly unable to grasp what age they are living in or what enemy they are fighting.
Tony Campolo and I both speak a lot, and we began to notice that there were some crowds of old folks that desperately needed some youthful energy, and there were other crowds of young folks that desperately needed some aged wisdom.
You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.
Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
I know from my own parents how important active older people are to a local community.
I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now says, "Dad, I just can't run the quarter with you anymore, unless I bring something to read."
Growing older is a precious commodity. Only a few can endure to achieve that distinguished distinction and quality.
What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.
I'm not saying all seniors should be running a city or running a business, but I am saying seniors are good for a lot more than simply running a bath, baking cookies or babysitting grandchildren.