The Eldest Child Quotes

#1. That high pitch scream emitted by Rose made me wince! Her ear bursting howls would stun me into silence as much as it silenced the eldest child in their home, eight-year-old Anna-Marie.

Stephen Richards

#2. Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

Victor Hugo

#3. I am the eldest child; it's lonely at the top.

Claire Denis

#4. I was the eldest child, so I know how it feels to have attention shared with a sibling.

Suriya

#5. Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

John Webster

#6. Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

Alexander Pope

#7. He said, 'Is there a child?' 'I have told you that there is,' said Jokaste. 'I wasn't talking to you,' said Damen. The attending women seated around Jokaste were of varying ages, from the eldest of perhaps sixty to the youngest, Jokaste's age, around twenty-four.

C.S. Pacat

#8. People who live on the devil's territory are automatically under his power

Sunday Adelaja

#9. 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

#10. Don't be an idiot," Terric said. "You were unconscious less than ten minutes ago."
"And you were a dick. One of us got better.

Devon Monk

#11. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible

George Orwell

#12. I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

Sally Quinn

#13. You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

Matthew Thomas

#14. Why sing music that you get to choose that isn't personal to you? That is the great thing about what I do.

Karen Mason

#15. Making money has always been pretty easy for me, but today I don't need any more money. I still work, because money is important, but my work is more important than the money, now. And that's a very big difference. I just work because I enjoy my work.

Robert Kiyosaki

#16. I don't believe in dieting, I don't believe in having certain moments in your life where you're healthy and then moments when you're like, "I'm going to eat whatever I want." It's just finding what works for your body and always eating healthy.

Misty Copeland

#17. The one thing I've learned about family skeletons is that they always have a way of finding the light of day and ending up at the neighborhood garage sale. Alora from The Sapphire Talisman

Brenda Pandos

#18. Like I told Howard, I can't help it that I'm beautiful.

Carrot Top

#19. Mary is a very well-written typical eldest child in that she puts her own needs at the forefront ... She's not as inclined to conciliate or placate. Cora is fascinated by Mary

Jessica Fellowes

#20. You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.

Gautama Buddha

#21. I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support.

Jane Mayer

#22. The landing stage stood on its high crooked stilts with only one person watching the boat disappear round the bend of the river - a girl of twelve called Ada, the wet-nurse's eldest child. As

Jane Gardam

#23. Porter is my eldest child, and I tended to be fiercely protective when he was criticized. He actually was not a big complainer about school. Simply selective in what he chose to do and say.

Susan Shreve

#24. Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you'll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They're less portable.

Cate Blanchett

#25. Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#26. I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost unbreakable backbone. My mother had three kids before me. She let me be completely free. I just never had anything to beat myself up over.

Christian Louboutin

#27. Art is neither a muscle nor a cure for ugliness. Ugliness has its own reasons and convictions to stay here. Art has a patience of a civilized, patience to withhold the gentleness of the civilization.

Ashutosh Gupta