Elder Status Quotes

Something happens when you become an elder rock & roller and you're still functioning. People start to give you awards and recognize achievements. It's the life achievement period of your career.

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

In ancient African cultures, a young man was not considered a full member of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn't marry and he couldn't own land until he had killed a lion. It was symbolic.

In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People.

You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.

I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess.