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It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals. -- Samantha Bond
Nothing like cleaning the whole house while my siblings sing "O Canada" - #oldestchildsyndrome. -- Michelle N. Onuorah
Our oldest grandchild has precisely Alice's coloring, which may be one reason I sometimes have trouble taking my eyes off her. -- Calvin Trillin
When Marion had been a teenager, she wanted a tattoo. As an oldest child who did mostly what was expected of her, she had been fascinated by the abandon tattoos implied, the willing, blind leap into commitment. -- Erica Bauermeister
The though revives in him the oldest memory of his life. A child sees a door closing: without knowing who it is that has just left, he senses it is someone he loves with all his tiny, still mute being. -- Andreï Makine
Hunched down in the small bright room Nel waited. Waited for the oldest cry. A scream not for others, not in sympathy for a burnt child, or a dead father, but a deeply personal cry for one's own pain. A loud, strident: 'Why me?' She waited. -- Toni Morrison
Our oldest friends, their faces, never really change, as we both travel at the same speed of life. Parents and children are different. They help us measure our existence, like the clock on the wall or the watch on our wrist. But old friends carry with them a braided constant, part and whole, all the days in the calendar contained in a glance. -- David Gilbert
Zombies are the middle children of the otherworldly family. Vampires are the oldest brother who gets to have a room in the attic, all tripped out with a disco ball and shag carpet. Werewolves are the youngest, the babies, always getting pinched and told they're cute. With all that attention stolen away from the middle child Zombie, no wonder she shuffles off grumbling, "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha. -- Kevin James Breaux
I must be the oldest living child soprano. -- Kathryn Grayson
I've been the oldest child since before you were born -- E. L. Konigsburg
Being an only child makes me the oldest child and the youngest child. And the middle child. -- Jarod Kintz
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
We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land! -- Yasser Arafat
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
Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire. -- Cassandra Clare

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