Best youth & elders Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.”

Looks Stories Youth Endure Lovely Torment Elders Afar

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer is that youth would not and cannot, given the financial and economic framework within which the elders are operating. While the moral convictions of individuals are important in the long run, it is institutions that determine the immediate course of events - particularly the institutions of finance.”

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple.... Somebody nominated me for president of the youth center. The elders began getting nervous, because I was an avowed atheist by that time.... I thought nature itself was so interesting that I didn't want it distorted like that. And so I gradually came to disbelieve the whole religion.”

Want Whole Kids President Interesting Atheism Youth Atheist Nervous Temples Elders

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.”

Reason Law Education Youth Elders

Book:Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places

Source: Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places

“I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.”

Thinking Years Ends Whole Happened Changed Youth Daughter Died Things Happen Life Changing My Daughter Elders Coma Menopause Whole Year

Author:Isabel Allende

“It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young people think they are so smart. Alas the doctrines they spout with such fervor turn out to be mostly parroted from their elders.”

People Thinking Men Two Young Turns Youth Smart Doctrine Enthusiasm Curious Arrogance Autobiography Seventies Alas Elders Fervor

Book:One man's initiation: 1917: a novel

Source: One man's initiation: 1917: a novel

“...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.”

“As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.”

Trying Age Youth Old Age Decay Elders Decadence

Author:Mason Cooley

“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.”

People Done Jobs Suffering Community Teach Missing Youth Couple Elders Basic Things

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.”

Giving Should Years Parent Subjects Youth Humility Ought Honor Preserves Purity Despise Modesty Elders Ornaments Forbearance

Author:Ambrose

“In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. They have no special devices, material, or institutions for teaching save in connection with initiation ceremonies by which the youth are inducted into full social membership. For the most part, they depend upon children learning the customs of the adults, acquiring their emotional set and stock of ideas, by sharing in what the elders are doing.”

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.”

Youth Elders Emulate Misguided Wallowing Trough

Author:Alice Walker

“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”

Long Age Funny Time Youth Ready Tasks Aging Old Age Old People Elders Elderly Youth And Old Age

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

“The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.”

Thinking Children Enough Funny Young Asks Answers Youth Trust Initiative Old People Elders

Author:Margaret Mead

“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.”

Inspirational Age Joy Energy Work Youth Aging Fountain Monday Elders Great Work Human Resources Youthfulness Coworker Fountain Of Youth Joy To The World Positive Work Joy In Work

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Seems Age Lasts Emotion Youth Seasons Crisis Finals Cease Plenty Shock Hopeful Resolve Elders Parting Earthquakes Peru

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

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