Top 100 The Oldest Quotes
#1. It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most.
It is older than the oldest speech of Rome.
This is the tragic accent of the scene.
Wallace Stevens
#2. Where I come from, it's a little bit like England. We start from the theater, and we do films a bit on our free time. The history of making films in Scandinavia is so old, it's like the oldest. The Nordic film industry started before Hollywood in Stockholm in Copenhagen.
Michael Nyqvist
#3. Ryder - the oldest, Avery continued. He's standing as job boss on this project. Owen's the detail guy, runs the numbers, makes the calls, takes the meetings. Or most of them. Beckett's an architect.
Nora Roberts
#4. A faithfully kept program of savings and conservative investments can give you more money and a better life than that of your neighbors who spend everything they get. This is probably the oldest financial advice in the world, but there are some things you can't improve on.
Jane Bryant Quinn
#5. For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.
Barbara Kingsolver
#6. The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.
Jessie Andrews
#7. The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn't mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else.
Billy Graham
#8. Japan has the oldest population in the world, and the Japanese go to the doctor more than anybody - about fourteen office visits per year, compared with five for the average American. And yet Japan spends about $3,400 per person on health care each year; we burn through $7,400 per person.
T.R. Reid
#9. Kusewera, an organization that fosters orphanages in Africa and the Philippines and encourages through creative play and education. Anything and everything that supports cancer research. East West Players, the oldest and biggest Asian American theater in the U.S.
Reggie Lee
#10. I died and then was brought to life, the oldest tale there is. I
Justin Cronin
#11. In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.
G.H. Hardy
#12. One of the oldest longings of all people of mystical sensibility is to be rid of disguises to the point of becoming naked.
Dorothee Solle
#13. Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Dont wait 'cause right now is the oldest you've ever been & the youngest you'll be ever again
Suzanne Collins
#14. To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
Gail Carriger
#15. For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every spring that there are things you cannot choke in blood.
Albert Camus
#16. I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people.
Bruce Dickinson
#17. Like all immigrants, he seemed to have an unerring instinct for the oldest, truest words in his new language. The way he said the word, it felt free of the treacherous weight of mate
Richard Flanagan
#18. Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
Ida Tarbell
#19. I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.
Kevin Kwan
#20. I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone.
Frei Otto
#21. Interior of his purposes ... . It's not the latest message, but more like the oldest
Rick Warren
#22. Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.
Andy Hargreaves
#23. This was the most emotional title of my career. I was the youngest champion, and now I'm the oldest.
Kelly Slater
#24. If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but a rehash of the best and the oldest. To read Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Milton, Spenser, Chaucer, and their compeers in prose, is to read in condensed form what all others have diluted.
Anna Brackett
#25. The oldest, easiest to swallow idea was that the earth was man's personal property, a combination of garden, zoo, bank vault, and energy source, placed at our disposal to be consumed, ornamented, or pulled apart as we wished.
Lewis Thomas
#26. Why did he kill his own mother?' Ruth asked.
'The oldest story in the book,' said Gamache.
'Ben was a male prostitute?' Gabri exclaimed.
'That's the oldest profession. Where do you keep your head?' asked Ruth. 'Never mind, don't answer that.
Louise Penny
#27. For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest in most groups of scientists.
Stanislaw Ulam
#28. Dont switch the blame to her, that's the oldest trick of all cowards
Ayn Rand
#29. The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings.
Apostolos Doxiadis
#30. She smiled as though someone had just offered her, the oldest virgin in town, a fully functioning Kingsize Vibro vibrator and a deluxe inhibition bypass.
Andrew Barrett
#31. The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for all the other branches, since the first step in obtaining any knowledge of things about us is to discriminate between them and to learn to recognize them.
Richard E. Blackwelder
#32. I am obsessed with my sisters. Being the oldest, I probably just have that in me. But I also think I am the youngest sometimes. We all have moments when we are the maternal one of the group.
Kourtney Kardashian
#33. Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.
P.G. Wodehouse
#34. Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.
Stephen King
#36. That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
Daniel Clowes
#37. I think the oldest comic I got when I was a kid was an issue of 'World's Finest' - it had a Neal Adams cover with Batman where he had turned into a bat, and he was attacking Superman.
Jason Aaron
#38. Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby.
John Oliver
#39. Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough.
Sherwood Anderson
#40. Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/
as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps.
Kay Ryan
#41. The oldest of North Korean labor camps, Bukchang had been hosting dissidents and alleged enemies of the state since the fifties .
David Baldacci
#43. A professional sex therapist." Gabe moved out into the hall. "Guess I should show some respect. They do say it's the oldest profession. No, wait, maybe I've got that mixed up with another line of work.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#44. In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.
Elizabeth Strout
#45. The oldest regretted the decline of the custom of wearing hats, because what did today's youngsters have left to take off their heads when they bumped into the doctor on the street?
Dimitri Verhulst
#46. The oldest and most important currency is debt.
Kabir Sehgal
#47. The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler
#48. When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.
Bart Gordon
#49. I can't get enough of 'Call of Duty.' I'm the oldest guy who plays on PlayStation.
Steve Jones
#50. It seems to me that he died from a combination of two of the oldest and most insidious killers of all: ignorance and avarice.
Robert A. Norman
#51. Think back to the oldest era your mind can fathom, back beyond everything we can remember, when gods were still men who had not yet lived the deeds that would deify them.
Angela B. Chrysler
#52. Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.
Dennis Wilson
#53. My first child is going to be the oldest sibling to the next kid, and that may change with each and every year. I'm looking forward to how one baby influences the other, and to my family as a whole, to every single chapter.
Blake Lively
#54. If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.
Tom Robbins
#55. Everything started coming into my head, ... I was the youngest world champ and now I'm the oldest world champ; it's been seven years since I won my last title and this is my seventh one ... but all those numbers and things are not as important as the feeling.
Kelly Slater
#56. Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it's no wonder. We're storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?
Brian Greene
#57. The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
Thomas Sowell
#58. And you never fall behind?"
"Of course I do. But I always feel guilty when that happens. After all, my journal is the oldest and most loyal friend I have. And it never interrupts me when I'm speaking," he added, with a boyish grin.
Zack Love
#59. You", he said, "are the single exception that rule". The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence."Without you, I would be a monster.
Nalini Singh
#60. When I look for what I'm going to listen to I go backwards. I'm always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out 'how do I get in the fast lane going that way?'. I'm going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.
Eric Clapton
#61. I'm happy if everybody else is. I'm a big brother, the oldest. If you're happy and I'm not, I'm cool with that. If I'm happy and you're not, I'm sad.
Chris Rock
#62. Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago?
Kazimir Malevich
#64. That scientifically savvy philosopher Daniel Dennett pointed out that evolution counters one of the oldest ideas we have: 'the idea that it takes a big fancy smart thing to make a lesser thing. I call that the trickle-down theory of creation.
Richard Dawkins
#65. Bath toys are reserved only for the oldest, more lethal vampires.
Jeaniene Frost
#66. The Family is the oldest and arguably most influential religious political organization in Washington.
Jeff Sharlet
#67. [On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.
Jeanne Calment
#68. Shaking's one of the oldest practices known to man. Standing round a fire and connecting with the Earth and moving energy through the body because it's where a lot of our stuff can get trapped.
Jerome Flynn
#69. The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#71. We loved - and were fated to sorrow. But from our striving and from our sorrow we fashioned The Oldest Story in the World.
Ross Lockridge Jr.
#72. I would say I am viewed as the oldest teenager in my family because they say I never grow old. I mean, I am stern in my own way - I am not one to let children run over me - but I am very, very good with children, and I can usually get what I want out of them.
Betty Wright
#73. Her fingers were gnarled and crooked like the roots of the oldest swamp trees. Not prissy roots of trees that grew in manicured parks and didn't understand the mess of life. These were roots forced to grow around, and down, and through, to survive.
Amber Kizer
#74. I think the interesting aspect of life is that you're always sort of in the middle. You're never the youngest and you're never the oldest.
Brie Larson
#75. I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.
Suzanne Vega
#76. The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.
Winston Churchill
#77. I'm the granddaddy of this side. I'm the oldest person playing in the team, so I've got a mentoring role. I've been around the tracks and achieved a few things. I try to make sure that the younger players reach their full potential, and stay on the right track.
Filo Tiatia
#78. These mountains and their caves are made from the stuff of the oldest stories (this was long before human-people, of course; whatever made you imagine that people were the first things to tell stories?),
Neil Gaiman
#79. Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.
Barbara G. Walker
#80. I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.
Vin Diesel
#81. In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.
Amanda Beard
#82. She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It's the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.
Laura Miller
#83. No. I've always been drawn to broken, wild terrain. The oddest tongues come from such places, and the strangest mythologies, and the oldest cities, and the most barbarous religions
Donna Tartt
#84. He was the oldest. When we left Kentucky, our folks told him to look after me. Didn't say a word to me. Wouldn't have occurred to them.
Micheal Punke
#86. This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.
Henry David Thoreau
#87. I kept telling him sex isn't the oldest profession, it's politics,
Carol Van Natta
#88. Trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war ha been central to the evolution of international relations.
Robert Gilpin
#89. Our bodies are made to move, and moving down the trail is one of the oldest, natural ways people have used their bodies.
Jennifer Pharr Davis
#90. In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
Amy Lowell
#91. I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.
Yancy Butler
#92. The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.
Johnnetta B. Cole
#93. Nothing beats a little cash in a bear market, of course, and the oldest form of cash is gold.
James Grant
#94. But the "best" lies are those that look the most like the Truth. The "newest" lies are the oldest ones.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#95. I'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band.
Bob Dylan
#96. Come take a look at one of the oldest human urges- religion. After all, the only thing that makes us screwier is sex.
Lilith Saintcrow
#97. Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.
Thomas McGuane
#98. By performing apparently absurd rituals, you get in touch with something deep in your soul, in the oldest part of yourself, the part closest to the origin of everything.
Paulo Coelho
#99. I found a copy of Leven's birth certificate and was surprised to see his birth name listed as E. Leven Thumps. I assume the E. stands for Elton, and I have no idea why they didnt spell it out, but it's intresting to think that it took exactly eleven whacks or thumps to down the oldest tree.
Obert Skye
#100. United we stand, divided we fall is one of the oldest and truest slogans of the Labour movement.
Jeremy Corbyn
