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Quotes About Oldest

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.
~ Thomas McGuane
Florida is a paradox that way, one of the youngest states, yet with some of the oldest European settlements. And this particular section of the northeast shore was home to a couple of the earliest sixteenth-century Spanish and French fortifications.
~ Tim Dorsey
Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.
~ Orson Scott Card
Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew. He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six. Right. And you're the oldest. Yes. That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.
~ Orson Scott Card
Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.
~ Orson Scott Card
The Library Company thrives to this day. With 500,000 books and 160,000 manuscripts, it remains a significant historical repository and is the oldest cultural institution in the United States.
~ Walter Isaacson
The Prince of Wurttemberg has been kidnapped." The Great Detective bounded from his chair as if he had been kicked from below. A prince stolen! Evidently a Bourbon! The scion of one of the oldest families in Europe kidnapped. Here was a mystery indeed worthy of his analytical brain. His mind began to move like lightning.
~ James Scott Bell
Cannes is the oldest film festival in the world, and I've long dreamed of having one of my films there in competition. It's a dream that lay dormant for a long time; I stopped believing in it.
~ Denis Villeneuve
It is the oldest and most simple curse on earth, and when properly applied, no cure can be found. Some might call it love.
~ Toby Barlow
To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.
~ Denis Kearney
Congress is the world's oldest deliberative body in the world's oldest democracy. The result of that democracy, and the Constitution on which it rests, are America's laws.
~ Mark Meadows
Asteroids are our oldest and most numerous cosmic neighbors.
~ Carrie Nugent
The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.
~ Nancy Gibbs
Aborigines are not just the oldest race in Australia; they are the oldest race on the planet. They look like dinosaurs.
~ Marina Abramovic
It may be a masculine attitude to take lovers, but it's definitely prevalent. I'm certainly not the oldest person doing it - not that I'm doing it right now, but when I was.
~ Diana Rigg
I am the oldest of three. I was in charge of making sure my brother and sister were OK and also entertained so they didn't bother my mother, who had a job at home.
~ Bill Irwin
America is the proud possessor of the oldest extant written constitution in the world, which was for its time - 1787 - a highly innovative and important document.
~ Linda Colley
My mother was the oldest of nine children, five boys and four girls, so she had experience sharing responsibility for a large, sometimes loud group of kids.
~ Diana Lopez
Since the Indian film industry is one of the oldest, and I have grown up admiring all the movies, especially the classics starring Guru Dutt, I would love to work here.
~ Mahira Khan
My father is the oldest of seven boys.
~ Dr. Dre
The FA Cup is the oldest cup competition in the world. Players are keen and willing to play in these games.
~ Edwin van der Sar
The first human I ever said 'I love you' to was my oldest son.
~ Nadya Suleman
Early on, I had contracted that dread affliction of oldest or only children -- I lived for the absolute approval of my parents.
~ Pat Conroy
Mat felt the change upon himself. Now he was the oldest, and the longest memory was his. Now between him and the grave stood no other man. From here on he would find the way for himself.
~ Wendell Berry