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I'm the oldest antique in town. -- Norman Rockwell
I am the oldest young designer in New York City. -- Michael Kors
The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don't. -- Mike Mills
Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man. -- Louis Nizer
I'm the oldest of three girls. My sisters say I can be bossy. -- Gayle King
Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line. -- Ric Flair
Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man. -- Henry David Thoreau
The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought. -- Pythagoras
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. -- Amy Lowell
I am the oldest of seven. Do my siblings think I'm super cool? I wish they thought I was super cool! -- Britt Robertson
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. -- H. P. Lovecraft
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. -- Ronald Reagan
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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 am almost the oldest person I know. -- Oliver Sacks
I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge. -- Ken Burns
It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature. -- Ivan Pavlov
As the oldest I was a daddy's girl and loved him with all my heart. My daddy had holes in his shoes so that he could pay for my photography classes, you know what I mean. -- Sherri Shepherd
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. -- Edward R. Murrow
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 what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true. -- Pablo Casals
We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe. -- Kevin Rudd
Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics. -- Dan Gable
The word of the oldest of the old of our peoples didn't stop. It spoke the truth, saying that our feet couldn't walk alone, that our history of pain and shame was repeated and multiplied in the flesh and blood of the brothers and sisters of other lands and skies. -- Subcomandante Marcos
Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things. -- Alvar Aalto
The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe. -- John Henrik Clarke
You try to make the most of each day. I'm not big into setting real specific goals. I think, really, if you just focus on every day - and I know that's the oldest cliche in the book, but it really is true. Day 1 of camp means just as much as Day 17 of camp. If you really try to focus on each and every one of those days, long-term. -- Scott Tolzien
Ones oldest friend is the best. -- Plautus
I'm the oldest antique in town." -- Norman Rockwell
I'm the oldest pretty face around. -- Lauren Hutton
Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession. -- Danny Harris
Espionage is the world's second oldest profession. -- Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything. -- Richard Powers
Storytelling is the oldest form of education. -- Terry Tempest Williams
Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine. -- Carl Jung
I must be the oldest living child soprano. -- Kathryn Grayson
I'm the oldest I've ever been, right now. -- Tim Sylvia
The oldest and most important currency is debt. -- Kabir Sehgal
I'm the oldest and I've got two sisters. -- Lisa Snowdon
So far, this is the oldest I've been. -- George Carlin
man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war. -- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession. -- Bill Press
Platitudes are generally the oldest and profoundest of truths ... -- Frances Noyes Hart
Even the oldest trees aren't ashamed to stand naked. -- Marty Rubin
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. -- H. P. Lovecraft
The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. -- Michael J. Fox
Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways. -- William Shakespeare
The oldest theory of contract is I think negative. -- Frederick Pollock
The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. -- William Wordsworth
I'm the oldest in my family and do play piano. -- David Lambert
Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana. -- Thomas McGuane
Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom." -- Thomas Carlyle
Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime -- David Mitchell
Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom. -- Thomas Carlyle
It was the oldest sound there was. Souls flying away. -- Sue Monk Kidd
The redemption plot is one of the oldest story shapes. -- Peter Baynham
I've been the oldest child since before you were born -- E. L. Konigsburg
Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest. -- William Blake
The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five. -- Terry Pratchett
Bath toys are reserved only for the oldest, more lethal vampires. -- Jeaniene Frost
The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions. -- Derek Bok
Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York! -- Sam Trammell
The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses. -- Henry David Thoreau
The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition. -- Charles Rosen
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Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia. -- Hassanal Bolkiah
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
[On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me. -- Jeanne Calment
I am the world's oldest teenager. I've never lost my youthful attitude. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist. -- David Blaine
Most of our oldest memories are the product of repeated rehearsal and reconstruction. -- Ulric Neisser
Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest. -- Andy Hargreaves
It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals. -- Samantha Bond
That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user! -- Daniel Clowes
I'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band. -- Bob Dylan
Dont switch the blame to her, that's the oldest trick of all cowards -- Ayn Rand
It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies? -- John le Carre
pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence. -- Fernando Pessoa
'Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television. -- David Shuster
The Family is the oldest and arguably most influential religious political organization in Washington. -- Jeff Sharlet
Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Im probably the oldest 38-year-old I know - sort of a grumpy old man -- Anderson Cooper
He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend. -- Ann Brashares
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them. -- Samuel Butler
Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it. -- Fareed Zakaria
My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains. -- Agatha Christie
Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television. -- David Shuster
Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television. -- David Shuster
Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect. -- David Remnick
My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences. -- David Wilkerson
My oldest brother was a big influence on the films I watched as a kid. -- Seann William Scott
I'm not only the best-known daredevil on the face of the earth, I'm the oldest. -- Evel Knievel
My oldest brother was a big influence on the films I watched as a kid. -- Seann William Scott
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it. -- Aldo Leopold
When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since. -- Shirley Temple
The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land. -- John Jakes
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. -- Plutarch
Shamanism is the oldest form of communicating and healing. It probably resides in all of us. -- Amy Hardie
The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin. -- Jessie Andrews
I can't get enough of 'Call of Duty.' I'm the oldest guy who plays on PlayStation. -- Steve Jones
I dreamt that I woke up. It's the oldest dream of all, and I've just had it -- Julian Barnes
Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization. -- Igor Youskevitch
Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession. -- Phil Plait
I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room. -- Isabel Allende
Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving. -- M.I.A.
Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it. -- Aaron Levie
Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult. -- Adam Nevill
The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed. -- David Letterman
The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear. -- Sri Chinmoy
The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried. -- Michel de Montaigne
I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me. -- Nella Larsen
The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself. -- Burleigh Grimes
The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around. -- Johnnetta B. Cole
Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it. -- Katharine Kerr
Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from. -- Beau Bridges
Being an only child makes me the oldest child and the youngest child. And the middle child. -- Jarod Kintz
Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last. -- Henry David Thoreau
Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it. -- Gil Kalai
Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door. -- Lester R. Brown

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