Ethel Percy Andrus Quotes

United States, Activist
September 21, 1884 – July, 13, 1967.

Ethel Percy Andrus was a long-time educator and the first woman high school principal in California. She was also an elder rights activist and the founder of AARP in 1958. In 1995 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Ethel Percy Andrus
- Lost
- Forever
- Losing
We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

Ethel Percy Andrus
- World
- Born
- Lessons

There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other; the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees; and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour.

Ethel Percy Andrus
- Learning
- Wine
- Students
Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.

Ethel Percy Andrus
- Growth
- Mankind
- Aging
It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds — thine and mine — do we become conscious of the divine spark each of us shares — only in sharing in our daily contacts, one with another, in our mutual hopes and fears do we find real peace. The human contribution is the essential ingredient.

Ethel Percy Andrus