Top 151 Oldest Quotes

If you’re the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you are the first American. You begin a habit or pattern that makes it easy to reject other help.

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.

I have three brothers and a sister. One older and three younger. My oldest brother Danny plays Hyde on ‘That ’70s Show,’ and my younger brother Jordan and my sister Allanah act as well, so we’re a bit of an acting family.

Basically, I try to let the song dictate what guitar I use. If it’s a really loud, crazy song, I’ll pull out the cheapest, oldest guitar I own, one that feeds back easily. But most of the time, I just use whatever’s around.

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.

My oldest boy is 14, and he’s not in that kind of awkward stage where, when we talk about girls, or there’s a hot girl walking by – they’re just so shy; it’s weird.

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60… I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.

The first human I ever said ‘I love you’ to was my oldest son.

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth.

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren’t wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‘We, the people.’

I’m the oldest and I’ve got two sisters.

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.

I’m the oldest in my family, and I grew up with brothers, so we would be on the front lawn every day playing football, whether it’s tackle or tag.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

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.

My oldest brother was a police officer.

I have lost a lot of clothes over the years… Probably the oldest garment that I still have would be my Union Jack jacket from John Galliano’s spring/summer 1993 show.

Boundaries move with time. It’s like being the oldest child. Your parents don’t know what to expect, but by the time the little sister comes along, it’s like, ‘Oh, staying out late with a boy – no big deal.’

America is the proud possessor of the oldest extant written constitution in the world, which was for its time – 1787 – a highly innovative and important document.

Congress is the world’s oldest deliberative body in the world’s oldest democracy. The result of that democracy, and the Constitution on which it rests, are America’s laws.

I was the ultimate tomboy because my oldest brother used to always beat up on me and wrestle and make sure I was engaged in sports, because I was his excuse to be able to go hang out with his friends.

One of my early memories is of a white girl twirling in a circle. I realized later on that it was from that show ‘Small Wonder’ – the oldest I could have been when I was watching it was four or five, but it’s one I think about a lot. It’s stuck in my head, this terrible Fox television show.

Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!

I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix. The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.

Every time something happens, whether I’ve won the most or lost the most, there’s always ‘oldest’ tied to it. It’s not a surprise anymore.

Tragedy is the oldest form of theatre.

Tons of people struggle to pronounce words, remember information, and string sentences together, particularly as they age. Biden, already the oldest president in U.S. history, is no exception.

The FA Cup is the oldest cup competition in the world. Players are keen and willing to play in these games.

My father described me as the oldest baby he’d ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.

My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I’ve already told them they have to wait until they’re 18; I won’t take them to auditions.

Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world’s oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar – people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.

Every continent on Earth has a form of bullroarer – it’s the oldest instrument known to man.

I like to say magic is the world’s second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

Men and women of western Sydney, it’s appropriate, you apparently believe, that Australia’s oldest surviving Prime Minister should make the concluding remarks in Australia’s oldest surviving Government House. I hope the building’s foundations are a bit more substantial than mine.

Our family is mixed. My oldest sister married a black man in 1962, which was way out there then.

‘Reign’ is probably the oldest one on the record. I wrote that when I was 19. ‘The Dead They Don’t Come Back,’ which is the last song on the album, I wrote when I was 20, and ‘Harlem River’ I just wrote last year. It spans from 2007 to 2012.

Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.

In the year 2000, the very youngest members of the Baby Boomer crew were in their mid-30s while the oldest Boomers were mid-50s. That year, the Boomers were a generation divided somewhat equally between the GOP and Democrats.

I have three sons, and the oldest wants to play pirates all the time. It has all these associations of living some kind of very free life. It’s interesting for me as a filmmaker to show a whole different side of that.

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.

I was the second oldest of seven children, and chores were a way of life for us. If your task wasn’t completed, you were called right back to finish it.

My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that – with my background – my own son would become an FBI agent.

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians – the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.

Two guys, one girl, and the mess they can create amongst themselves may be the oldest story in the book, but it can quite easily be refreshed given the right story and treatment.

I grew up with six girls and one boy, so my innate instinct of who I am – I’m the third oldest, and I helped raise all of my younger sisters. I just fall into that aspect – that motherhood – naturally.

I don’t want to be the oldest performer in captivity… I don’t want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

We grew up very poor, and I hated being poor. I was the oldest of five kids, and I never got a pair of skates until I was nine. It was very difficult to get an education back then and play junior hockey.

‘Meet the Press’ is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

People talk about my age, but you could probably include me in that. I haven’t got a lot of experience at international level. I am 30 and one of the oldest in the squad, but I am new to this as well and have not been to a big, big tournament. But this is an evolving England team.

Rob Thomas, the Action Bronson and the Riff Raff. Both the musicians, they know who I am and they know I come from oldest country in the world and if I want my words like the music. I forever love them like the Frank Sinatra.

Why documentary about Iron Sheik? Lotta people, they ask me about my story. They ask me how the legend come from oldest country in the world, the Iran, to come to the America to become the legend.

My oldest son’s name is Oliver and my second son’s name is Walter.

My oldest son played for the NFL, until he got hurt and opened a gym here in Mississippi. He trains young athletes and inspires them to chase their dreams, playing football in college and professionally.

I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you’ve got to know how great he was.

Lexington is home to the University of Kentucky, where my husband and I teach, as well as to Transylvania University, the oldest college established west of the Allegheny Mountains, and several multinational companies; people come and go from all over the world.

‘El Gordo’ is the name given to the oldest lottery jackpot in the world – and the richest. Held every year in Madrid on December 22, the Christmas Lottery culminates with the picking of the El Gordo number, the Fat One, which, for many, has become the true Christmas miracle in Spain.

My big sister’s an engineer, my oldest brother is a lecturer at Cambridge University, another is a kidney specialist, another is an engineer, one set up his own business, my other sister’s training to be a teacher and there’s me wanting to be a presenter.

Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that’s not the only place my friends come from.

I study the universe. It’s the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

When the oldest surviving record company goes all in on a conductor, everyone notices.

I wanna make more songs than anybody, I wanna be the oldest rapper who is active.

As the leader of Southeast Asia’s oldest democracy, I am always keen to share our experiences. In the half-century since independence, we have found that steady reform is the best way to secure lasting stability. It is a process that continues in Malaysia to this day.

I was the oldest of four children, and the atmosphere was volatile for all of us. My father and mother were in constant conflict, making divorce seem like the only possible outcome.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

I’m the oldest in my family and do play piano.

Louisiana and France have, perhaps, one of the oldest and strongest bonds. Our culture is shaped by this historic relationship, and the peace and security of both of our nations are intertwined.

My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.

My dad, for the first 15 years of my career, on every visit he made to a play or a film set, would find the oldest person on set and say, ‘Do you think my son has a future?’

Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I’m a 14-year-old who is 60.

When you’re the oldest rider at the Tour de France, you really feel it.

I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought I would play as long as I did, either, seventeen years from start to finish, with stops in Houston, Minnesota, Seattle, and Kansas City.

Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.

It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher’s Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.

I speak with a Northern Irish accent with a tinge of New York. My wife has a bit of a Boston accent; my oldest daughter talks with a Denver accent, and my youngest has a true blue Aussie accent. It’s complicated.

I’d read about Alexander Imich, a Polish-born ‘psychic researcher,’ in ‘The New York Times’ not long after he’d turned 111 and had been declared the oldest man on earth.

I am probably the oldest new artist Sony has ever signed.

42% of our management team are women. So we’ve reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that’s when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution – the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that’s a lovely point to reflect on.

Probably the most infamous story in our family: My oldest brother took a U-lock bike lock and locked my head to the bedpost. And he didn’t just do this for a minute or two; he did this for a couple hours. I was maybe 8 or 9, and he was maybe 15.

The thing is, wrestling is the oldest form of combat known. The cavemen wrestled. And everyone in the American public can understand that.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

Britain today is not revolutionary France. There are no grades of citizenship. An immigrant who has just shaken hands at the end of their citizenship ceremony is as British as a member of the oldest family in the land.

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.

I was very protected growing up. My dad was very strict with me. I was the oldest of four kids, and there are three girls. So I kind of paved the way of what it was like to raise a teenage daughter.

I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I’ve had bonds for over 50 years with people.

I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, ‘Schmuck, don’t do that.’

Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.

Jerusalem is not the oldest city in the Western world, but its long and confused past takes us back to pre-Old Testament times.

Asteroids are our oldest and most numerous cosmic neighbors.

I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.

My oldest brother was two years older than me, and a really awesome skater.

I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they’re going to see it, especially her guy friends.

It’s one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

I’ve always wanted to be under the confetti as a champion, and the Packers beating the Steelers to conclude the 2010 season finally gave me that opportunity. It was so surreal, being able to bring my family onto the field, seeing my oldest son roll around in the confetti, having a chance to hoist the Lombardi Trophy.

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.

It’s the oldest trick in Washington – when presented with a policy solution you don’t like, characterize it as the bogeyman.

I grew up with 2 older brothers, the oldest of which was big into film. Hanging around him got me seeing so much good stuff at an early age. Maybe a 10-year-old should not be watching ‘Boyz N the Hood’ like 10 times in a row? I don’t know. But it probably shaped me in some way.

My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.

The Mark Birley fan club, of which epic American socialite Nan Kempner says she’s the oldest living member, follows him doggedly.

As members of the oldest civil rights organization in the nation, NRA members know tyranny when we see it.

I am the oldest young designer in New York City.

I remember, I was at the house with my oldest son and I got that call from Johnny Ace. You know that call. Johnny was the guy that hired me, fired me and hired me back, which was kind of cool. But I was just fired, everything stopped, my whole world stopped.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.

When we home schooled my oldest, Jasper, in eighth grade, I saw how empowering it is for a child to learn in their own way. That rebooted my thinking about education.

I have the oldest whiplash in the business.

My oldest daughter is a pianist; she plays concerts. We play together, also.

I’m the oldest of six children and I had my own first baby when I was 23. So I’ve always been interested in babies, and I had lots of opportunities to watch them.

Seriously, my grandma’s like the oldest lady on ShipRocked every year. My grandma’s crazy.

Gift giving is one of the oldest forms of human interaction. It is a behaviour all cultures and all classes share.

I’ve probably been the hardest on my dad. I was the oldest girl; I was 12 when they divorced. So from birth until 12, I had him, and I was the center of his attention. So that just all completely changed and went away when they divorced.

My parents are actors, and I’m the oldest of my siblings – I have three younger sisters and a brother who’s my best friend. We’re a close-knit, complicated family, but we spend a lot of time together, even though we live in different houses. We’re a rambunctious gang!

The redemption plot is one of the oldest story shapes.

‘Cube’ was the first big science fiction film I was a part of. It was a fantastic directorial debut by one of my oldest friends Vincenzo Natali and it remains one of my most painful and uncomfortable roles. It’s also one of my favorites.

Most people think of solar and wind as new energy sources. In fact, they are two of our oldest.

I’ve been adapting ever since my oldest had her first play date with a boy, and I was like, ‘That’s not normal,’ because I came from the old school. Now boys sleep over at my house. It doesn’t matter which girl, which age.

The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.

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.

Our nation’s oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children – black children, in particular – in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

The hero’s journey is, you know, one of the oldest story arcs that we have. And it’s one, I think, that’s especially projected onto cancer patients.

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China – the greatest and oldest despotism in the world – for a cheap working slave.

Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!

What you have to understand is that blues… it’s in a line from the oldest forms of African music. If you’re playing it like it’s an echo of the past, it would be a lot less exciting, but this music lives today.

There’s a scary moment when you realise you’re no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you’ve been a successful young person. That’s followed, of course, by the realisation that you’re actually the oldest person in the room.

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.

I am the oldest of seven. Do my siblings think I’m super cool? I wish they thought I was super cool!

I think I’m the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.

Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series ‘M*A*S*H,’ and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!

I’m the oldest of four children, and when I was young, I used to get the blackboard out and make my brothers and sisters sit in front of me while I taught class. They all thought I wanted to be a teacher, but I didn’t. I was impersonating my teachers.

New Hampshire has one of the oldest housing stocks in the nation, which puts us all at a heightened risk of lead poisoning.

I finally became a scuba diver at age 15 or so, and a couple of years after that, I attended a dive show that is held every year in Boston. It’s the oldest one in the world and it’s still going on – it’s called the Sea Rovers.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, ‘What do you think about Daddy coming back?’ And she said, ‘I didn’t think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.’

I was my mom’s oldest child, so she was like, watching closely and taking notes, like, ‘Okay, this is what she gravitates towards,’ and she gave me all the tools to keep me focused. I liked to write; she got me notebooks. I wanted to draw; she got me sketch books and crayons and coloured pencils.

Aborigines are not just the oldest race in Australia; they are the oldest race on the planet. They look like dinosaurs.

The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it’s the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it’s the most sensitive. It’s not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite – and typically they don’t.

Low-volatility funds, which tend to smooth out performance, have been especially popular since the financial crisis. The PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Fund is the oldest, begun in 2011.

I love the people to see me as gold medal, Hall of Fame, world champion that knows how to make the world news and how to come from oldest counrty in the world to be most famous Iranian in the history.

I don’t want to be the oldest anything in America. Sorry about that.

There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story – it was the structure of a sermon.

I may one day be the oldest person in the world to have cosmetic surgery.

I’m the oldest antique in town.

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.

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.

For things to have value in man’s world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man’s oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

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.

I go back to things all the time. It’s really nice, too, like when I’m going through some kind of a writer’s block, and I’m feeling uninspired, I go to some of my oldest songs from over the years and sift through them, and one thing that’s very nice is to see how I’ve grown up a little bit. A little bit.