Oldest Quotes

I really know right from wrong and apply that to my life. At home, I was the oldest of three. My role was to be the responsible one.

We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.

It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record.

In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.

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

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.

Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

I'm the oldest antique in town.

I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.

I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church.

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

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.

Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!

My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.

I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.