Oldest Quotes

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!

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.

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.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

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