Respecting elders Quotes

There is a trend in child-rearing that I find abhorrent: "Whatever the kids want to do is fine." For me, the classic example of this is when someone has a visitor and says, "Go kiss Aunt Gertrude," and Aunt Gertrude says, "She doesn't have to kiss me if she doesn't want to." Well, I think that's wrong.

Listen.. to your motor-mouth mother..... Lovely Minato said

I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

‎You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner!

I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

If you're older, you're smarter. I just believe that. If you're in an argument with someone older than you, you should listen to 'em ... even if they're wrong, their wrongness is rooted in more information than you have.

Age demands respect; youth, love.

There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.