Oldest Quotes

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

We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.

Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.

I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.

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

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

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

It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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.