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I'm the oldest of four, I have three siblings, and I think I kind of grew up aggravating and picking at them.
~ Buster Posey
Strife is life's oldest and most holy fundament.
~ Steven Pressfield
It was the oldest sound there was. Souls flying away.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
That night in my bed, when I closed my eyes, bee hum ran through my body. Ran through the whole earth. It was the oldest sound there was. Souls flying away.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
~ Susan Sontag
Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.
~ Susan Sontag
The Ear is the local bar down the block from the agency. It's one of the oldest drinking establishments in New York, and it got its current name because the neon curves on the letter "B" in "Bar" burned out years ago, leaving only "Ear" glowing.
~ Josh Kilmer-Purcell
That's one of the oldest tricks in the world, Adrien-with-an-e.
~ Josh Lanyon
Not only are magical texts among the oldest surviving pieces of literature, but many scholars and anthropologists suggest that it was the need to record spells and divination results that stimulated the very birth of writing.
~ Judika Illes
We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
~ Bayard Taylor
Tragedy is the oldest form of theatre.
~ John Ross Bowie
I've always loved cuneiform; I've always loved the way it looks. I love that it's the world's oldest script. And the creative potential of bad translation or misunderstanding or something has always been at the core of the idea of 'Dirty Projectors.' So the cuneiform is pretty playful - basically, just a joke.
~ David Longstreth
I come from oldest country in the world and everybody know when Iron Sheik see the bad person like the OJ Simpson or jabroni Chris Brown or the good man like the Ray Lewis, I respect them or break their back.
~ The Iron Sheik
Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.
~ Laura Prepon
I'm the oldest and I've got two sisters.
~ Lisa Snowdon
I'm the oldest of three girls. My sisters say I can be bossy.
~ Gayle King
I am the oldest of four, so I often felt the brunt of the madness, along with the responsibility of protecting my siblings from the unpredictable swings. When things were bad, I was the protector. When things were great, I was the protector-in-waiting, always on the outside of the fun, easily teased for being too serious, and always knowing that we were one sideways glance or one smart-ass comment from chaos.
~ Brene Brown
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have
~ Henry David Thoreau
'Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.
~ David Shuster
Steven Projan of Wyeth Research puts it, bacteria "are the oldest of living organisms and thus have been subject to three billion years of evolution in harsh environments and therefore have been selected to withstand chemical assault.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
Or as Steven Projan of Wyeth Research puts it, bacteria "are the oldest of living organisms and thus have been subject to three billion years of evolution in harsh environments and therefore have been selected to withstand chemical assault."10
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner