Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

— John Dryden

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

— John Dryden

I wasn't lonely as a child. I was the eldest of four and always had lots of people around me.

— Sophie Dahl

“We only give credence to that which we can prove exists. Since we cannot find evidence that gods, miracles, and other supernatural things are…

— Christopher Paolini

I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.

— David Gross

Porter is my eldest child, and I tended to be fiercely protective when he was criticized. He actually was not a big complainer about…

— Susan Shreve

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was…

— David Rockefeller

It has always touched my heart to sense so deeply how much the Father loved His eldest son.

— Robert D. Hales

My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for 'The Social Network.'

— Liberty Ross

I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I was always a person on my mother's hip in the kitchen. My mom really wanted her kids at her side as much as…

— Rachael Ray

The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if…

— Georg Solti

We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my…

— Shereen El Feki

Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over…

— Homer

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

— John Webster