Famous quotes containing the word elders:
“If the elders have no values, their children and grandchildren will turn out badly.”
—Chinese proverb.
“...I am who I am because I’m a black female.... When I was health director in Arkansas ... I could talk about teen-age pregnancy, about poverty, ignorance and enslavement and how the white power structure had imposed it—only because I was a black female. I mean, black people would have eaten up a white male who said what I did.”
—Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)
“He who does not listen to the words of his elders will surely suffer soon.”
—Chinese proverb.