There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians. Dave Van Ronk
Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones. David Dinkins
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub. George Bernard Shaw
A cat will teach her young ones all the tricks, except how to jump backwards. Netherlands Antillean Proverb
What the elders see while sitting the young ones standing on their toes won't see. African Proverb
It's the big birds that teach the young ones to flight. African Proverb