Seniority Quotes

It's an unwritten rule that you respect people who've given you breaks. You see somebody's body of work before you take a tone with them. I will talk differently to someone with 18 years of experience and someone with 18 months.

I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.

The only way to get anywhere in Congress is to stay there and let seniority take its course.

I am older than most of my on-screen colleagues, and the ones behind the scenes, too.

The longer you're here [in Congress] the better seniority looks.

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

I'm young enough not to be a rival to Mr. Basescu.

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

Age is irrelevant. Experience is relevant.

If you want to get along, go along.

The trouble with modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

Right now, the old guys, the old farts, if you will, are still running the show, and the women haven't gotten their place yet at all.

If to be old is not to be wise, then it is simply to be obsolete.

We started tearing down the seniority system on Capitol Hill. All of that begins in the '70s. It accelerates and continues in the '90s, and it's going on to this day.

I've opened throughout most of my career at Worcester. I understand there are guys in the team who have opened for a long time, more than me, with better records than me.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Old age is second childhood.

David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience.

I'm just a senior ditch digger.

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

Leadership in the field, and especially during the hurried organization of the urgently needed new units, must not depend on seniority, meaning age.

I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.

Don’t call it a comeback, I’ve been here for years.