In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

~ Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder Books Elders Truth

Each young person is a poet of sorts, trying to sort out the poetics of their inner life and its relation to the great world around it. Each elder is a philosopher of sorts, trying to sort out the meanings and gleanings of a life as well as the necessary implications of the presence of death.

~ Michael Meade

Michael Meade Death Elders Poets Presence Of Death Wisdom Youth

Mentoring is an archetypal activity that has timeless elements which can connect us to the universal ground where nature renews itself and culture becomes reimagined. Youth and elder meet where the pressure of the future meets the presence of the past. Old and young are opposites that secretly identify with each other for neither fits well into the mainstream of life.

~ Michael Meade

Michael Meade Education Elders Mentoring Youth

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties were done we were give permission to read. In other words, our elders positioned reading as a privilege - a much sought-after prize, granted only to those goodhardworkers who earned it. How clever of them.

~ Mildred Armstrong Kalish

Mildred Armstrong Kalish Adults Behavior Chores Duties Elders Modification Permission Privilege Prize Read Reading

The young man pities his elders, fearing the day he, too, will join their ranks. The elderly man pities the younger generation, well-knowing the trials and tribulations that lie ahead of them.

~ Lynda I Fisher

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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it's an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from it's hole.

~ Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty Children Elders Listening Mouse

One of the things I enjoy about being young is learning from my elders without them giving direct advise.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Unarine Ramaru Advise Elders Grown Up Learning Respect Subtle Ways Trust Young

He pulled out handcuffs and snapped them around my wrists. Where's your bag? You didn't bring your staff?I have it. It's hidden. Charlie was currently tucked inside the leg of my Harry Potter pajama bottoms, which were beneath my jeans, but that fell under the category of TMI.

~ Suzanne Johnson

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My mother had a kindness that embraced all life.She knew her place well and was comfortable in giving everything she had.This is the tradition of native women.

~ Dan George

Dan George Elders Freedom Kindness Love Mothers Sharing Wisdom

Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time is think about how nice it was to be a teenager so long ago.

~ Aimee Bender

Aimee Bender Advice Aging Elders Listen To Your Elders Observations On Life Teenagers

The world is in me and you are not even in the world yet.

~ Warren Eyster

Warren Eyster Elders Experience Grandchildren Grandparents Senior Citizens Youth

I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man!

~ Rebecca Mckinsey

Rebecca Mckinsey Authority Elders Parents Respect Royalty

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.

~ Vera Nazarian

Vera Nazarian Age Authority Chastise Elders Generations Old Respect Young

Oh, no, no, you've got that all wrong. You're not required to respect elders. After all, most people are idiots, regardless of age. In tribal cultures, we just make sure that elders remain an active part of the culture, even if they're idiots. Especially if they're idiots. You can't just abandon your old people, even if they have nothing intelligent to say. Even if they're crazy.

~ Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie Elders Idiots Indians Native Americans Respect Seniors Tribes

I suppose.” Mousefur sniffed. “No doubt it’ll be up to me to teach them manners. Kits nowadays don’t know how to show any respect.”Jayfeather’s whiskers twitched with amusement.“Don’t you believe it,” Purdy whispered. “She was teaching Lilykit and Seedkit how to reach under the wall of the warriors’ den and catch stray tails yesterday.

~ Erin Hunter

Erin Hunter Elders Funny Mischief Respect Warrior Cats

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

~ Nalo Hopkinson

Nalo Hopkinson Elders Respect

How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?

~ Nadia Scrieva

Nadia Scrieva Elders Respect Samurai

Our elders, and our elders’ kin, and their kin before them, fought to keep Sunningrocks in our territory. Many of them lost their lives, giving up their last breath for stones that belong to us. Can we give up where they did not, turn tail and flee when they kept fighting so that their kits could hunt and play and bask on these rocks? Will you fight with me now, in honor of all our elders and all our unborn kits?

~ Erin Hunter

Erin Hunter Elders Fight Inspirational Legacy Warrior Cats

Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations.

~ Toba Beta

Toba Beta Conscience Elders Next Generations Passed On

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

~ Lisa Ling

Lisa Ling Culture Better Elders

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

~ Ben Lindsey

Ben Lindsey Generation Elders Kids