Quotes About Eldest Son

#1. Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

David Rockefeller

#2. My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad.

Mike McGavick

#3. The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing in me with all of its terrifying unpredictability, and I found myself anxious, unable to work and woefully at sea.

Lauren Groff

#4. [The answer to that, warns Saddam's eldest son, is no.] If they come, ... Sept. 11, which they are crying over and see as a big thing, will be a real picnic for them, Godwilling.

Uday Hussein

#5. And that was what the Christians had been doing in their church, consecrating their wizards by making boys into black-clothed priests who would spread their filth further, and my son, my eldest son, was now a damned Christian priest and I hit him again.

Bernard Cornwell

#6. I think there's an underlying insecurity to Bush with a rather classical genesis - namely his being the eldest son of a famous father. I think this has propelled his need to be distinctive, to do big things.

Robert Draper

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

Robert D. Hales

#8. My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.

Gary Lineker

#9. I always write back to people who are kind enough to write to me. Actually, I don't write - I recline on my red velvet sofa with my feet on the coffee table and dictate the letters to my eldest son.

Sue Townsend

#10. Though the fact that they have to be rebuilt And frequently mortgaged to the hilt Is inclined to take the gilt Off the gingerbread, And certainly damps the fun Of the eldest son.

Noel Coward

#11. On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.

Helen Hunt Jackson

#12. Was raised on the Torah, my wife on the Qu'Ran, my eldest son is an Atheist, my youngest is a scientologist, my daughter is studying Hinduism, I imagine there is room there for a holy war in my living room, but we practice live and let live.

Jerome Bixby

#13. When I come to visit my mom - every two or three months - I generally spend five or six hours with her each day. She's always immensely glad to see me, her eldest child, her only son.

Michael Dirda

#14. PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

Ambrose Bierce

#15. Wisdom is not acquired by reading. Wisdom is what results when you incorporate this knowledge into your personal experience.

Jim Lawless

#16. As a father ,supports his sons, so let the eldest support his younger brothers, and let them also in accordance with the law behave towards their eldest brother as sons ,behave.

Guru Nanak

#17. The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

Carlos Ghosn

#18. I'm quite old-fashioned. I like going out to dinner. You have the chance to talk to somebody and get to know them better.

Harry Styles

#19. Idol of idiot-worshippers!

William Shakespeare

#20. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Anonymous

#21. Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

John Katzman

#22. I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.

Colin Meloy

#23. So, uh, just to be clear," said Calo, "none of us are going to be fighting Jean?" "Not unless you're inconceivably stupid.

Scott Lynch

#24. Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

W. Somerset Maugham

#25. Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

Richard Dawkins