Quotes About Oldest

We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.

I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone.

The British Parliament always has adjusted and that is why it is the oldest in the world, because it takes its lead from the British people.

Low-volatility funds, which tend to smooth out performance, have been especially popular since the financial crisis. The PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Fund is the oldest, begun in 2011.

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

I am the oldest of seven. Do my siblings think I'm super cool? I wish they thought I was super cool!

Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project," a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.

By far, the oldest of the claptrap philosophies of mankind is astrology.

My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.

It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!

I'm the oldest in my family and do play piano.

I have three sons, and the oldest wants to play pirates all the time. It has all these associations of living some kind of very free life. It's interesting for me as a filmmaker to show a whole different side of that.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

I may one day be the oldest person in the world to have cosmetic surgery.

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.

In the Bhagavad Gita, one of the oldest and most beautiful spiritual teachings in existence, nonattachment to the fruit of your action is called Karma Yoga. It is described as the path of "consecrated action.

There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.

My favorite places in Moscow are the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art - it has a wonderful collection of Impressionists - the Justo club, and Sandyni Bath, which is the oldest bath house in Moscow.

I can't get enough of 'Call of Duty.' I'm the oldest guy who plays on PlayStation.

When the oldest surviving record company goes all in on a conductor, everyone notices.

I was the oldest god, for one thing.

The oldest and wisest of human communities show most respect to the gods, and are most careful of their worship.