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Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin. -- John Webster
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. -- Thomas Fuller
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
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
Asher means 'happy and blessed' which embodies my eldest. Caleb means 'stubborn and tenacious dog' and I can't even tell you how much that is my little boy! It was a useful warning. -- David Oyelowo
The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design. -- Peter Zumthor
Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh?" (Orik) (Eldest) (Page 207) -- Christopher Paolini
Sable-vested Night, eldest of things. -- John Milton
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law. -- John Dryden
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom -- Victor Hugo
Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm. -- Emily Dickinson
My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad. -- Mike McGavick
As the eldest in the family, I'm used to making unpopular decisions. -- Hetty King
Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I was the eldest child, so I know how it feels to have attention shared with a sibling. -- Suriya
My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for The Social Network. -- Liberty Ross
Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby. -- Bobby Hull
Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us. -- Barry Gibb
I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us. -- Barry Gibb
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
Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much. -- Abraham Lincoln
The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart. -- Joseph Campbell
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
My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments -- John Hume
My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments. -- John Hume
You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters. -- John Locke
The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone. -- Henry Williamson
I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my eldest daughter, Amy, nicknamed me 'the Tasmanian Devil' when she was in her teens. -- Jim Webb
In India, the eldest has the most responsibility and the crown goes to him. The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could 'most talent' be determined? So Indian society settled on age. -- Devdutt Pattanaik
I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian clothes and take them out for the day and pretend they were mine. -- Sadie Frost
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
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
There's no discounting the antagonism the average woman feels for the eldest daughter. The infuriating thing is that most mothers blame the daughters for their hatred when it's just what makes the mother pig eat her first batch of young. Of course one can't tell them that. -- Mari Sandoz
We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my childhood, we were the only members living outside of Egypt. So between my father's prestige as the eldest son and my own exotic pedigree, I basked in the spotlight. -- Shereen El Feki
As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers. -- John Henrik Clarke
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I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more. -- Wilbur Smith
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best. -- Ben Jonson
My father passed away after three years of debilitating disease, which transformed a very strong and bright man into a real wreck. And that is hard. You have to get out of that stronger, if you can, which I was lucky to be able to. I was the eldest of the family, and I had to support my mother and help my brothers. -- Christine Lagarde
My mother was gentle and warm. She was the sort of person you could really open up to. I was the eldest and her only boy, so I guess I was treated differently. She did bring me up as a Catholic, and at one time I was an altar boy, but I lost my faith, as did my father, when my mother died at 45. -- Stephen Mangan
I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere. -- Damian Marley
God, eldest of Poets. -- William Watson
Self-defense is Nature's eldest law. -- John Dryden
Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine. -- Johann Hermann Baas
Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God. -- Charles Kingsley
My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children. -- Caitlin Moran
The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love. -- Richard B. Garnett
I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons. -- David Gross
I'm the eldest of four - I love my family so much. I'm crazy about them. -- Suki Waterhouse
It has always touched my heart to sense so deeply how much the Father loved His eldest son. -- Robert D. Hales
Papa loves you with a dying and infernal love," the youngest girl said. "Undying," the eldest girl corrected. "And eternal. -- Martine Leavitt
My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for 'The Social Network.' -- Liberty Ross
If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter. -- Edward Thomas
I have a big mouth, and over the years, as the eldest of five, I have had a tendency to speak when no one really cared. -- Terry McMillan
On the king's gate the moss grew gray;The king came not. They called him deadAnd made his eldest son one daySlave in his father's stead. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. -- John Keats
Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance. -- Walter Savage Landor
I live in the social purgatory of the San Fernando Valley, while my eldest daughter is bused to a charter school in the fantasy land of Bel Air. -- Shawn Amos
If one's safety is threatened, one often finds courage one didn't know one had, and the eldest Baudelaire found she could be brave enough to open the door. -- Lemony Snicket
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
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
[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
Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry. -- John Milton
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
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

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