Quotes About Oldest

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.

I am obsessed with my sisters. Being the oldest, I probably just have that in me. But I also think I am the youngest sometimes. We all have moments when we are the maternal one of the group.

It's the oldest trick in Washington - when presented with a policy solution you don't like, characterize it as the bogeyman.

The more we busy ourselves with dreams, the more we shall see such coincidences — chances. Remember that the oldest Chinese scientific book is about the possible chances of life.

The words that oscillate between nonsense and supreme meaning are the oldest and truest.

Storytelling is the oldest form of entertainment there is. From campfires and pictograms - the Lascaux cave paintings may be as much as twenty thousand years old - to tribal songs and epic ballads passed down from generation to generation, it is one of the most fundamental ways humans have of making sense of the world.

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds

also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can't understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.

The Haudenosaunee thus would have the second oldest continuously existing representative parliaments on earth. Only Iceland's Althing, founded in 930 A.D., is older.

August 31, 1142. If Mann and Fields are correct, this was the date on which Tododaho accepted the alliance. The Haudenosaunee thus would have the second oldest continuously existing representative parliaments on earth. Only Iceland's Althing, founded in 930 A.D., is older.

Do not believe angels are easy. Instead, terrible, terrific in the oldest sense-- the ground giving way beneath your feet.

Ireland has the oldest literature in Europe in a native language.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

As members of the oldest civil rights organization in the nation, NRA members know tyranny when we see it.

The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear.

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

Throughout history, human nature remains unchanged. The world's oldest questions are still being asked. Medea, Oedipus, we're not adding anything that the Greeks didn't already know.

Christopher Moore is the author of ten novels, including this one. He began writing at age six and became the oldest known child prodigy when, in his early thirties, he published his first novel.

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it-just to name it-must have been like trying to catch something invisible.

The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man's oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities.

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.