Oldest Quotes

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.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

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 love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!

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

That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!

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.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to 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 books are only just out to those who have not read them.

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

Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

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

I am the oldest young designer in New York City.

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.