Oldest Quotes

320 quotes by 280 authors

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried. — Michel de Montaigne
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. — Fred Astaire
I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought… — Warren Moon
I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I… — Oliver Sacks
My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the… — Bonnie Bedelia
I thought I had a handle on my priorities before Elizabeth and I lost our oldest son to stillbirth. — Peter Roskam
Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all. — Kathleen Troia McFarland
I was very protected growing up. My dad was very strict with me. I was the oldest of four kids, and there are three girls.… — Dominik Garcia-Lorido
When we home schooled my oldest, Jasper, in eighth grade, I saw how empowering it is for a child to learn in their own way.… — Suzy Amis
The redemption plot is one of the oldest story shapes. — Peter Baynham
Jake Johnson is one of my oldest friends. — Casey Wilson
The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come… — Nancy Gibbs
I have my three brothers, and then I have my adopted sister from El Salvador, who is actually the oldest. My brother and I were… — Carrie Coon
We grew up very poor, and I hated being poor. I was the oldest of five kids, and I never got a pair of skates… — Paul Henderson
My mother made me take piano lessons, and because I am her oldest and she had not yet been worn down by the task of… — Sheri L. Dew
Lexington is home to the University of Kentucky, where my husband and I teach, as well as to Transylvania University, the oldest college established west… — Kim Edwards
There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in… — Ira Glass
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. — Ronald Reagan
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… — Pablo Casals
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. — Edward G Bulwer-Lytton

Who Wrote These Oldest Quotes

280 authors contributed a total of 320 Oldest Quotes, led by these top contributors: