Eldest Quotes - Page 2

• A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

  Maurice Sendak

  Inspirational, Funny, Beauty

  "Outside Over There". Interview With Emma Brockes, harpers.org. March 2013.

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• Shall we dance,friend of my heart?" We shall, little one.

  Christopher Paolini

  Heart, Littles, My Heart

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1339, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Believe, Son

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.99, A&C Black

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• 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

  Summer, Children, Wine

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 5

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• [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

  God, Real, Son

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• My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad.

  Mike McGavick

  Dad, Son, Grew Up

  "McGavick's Confession". www.realclearpolitics.com. August 25, 2006.

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• Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I seen" ever escaped the keen ears of his eldest sister, who immediately corrected him. Mother sometimes thought Katherine a little severe when, in the interest of proper speaking, she would stop him in the midst of an exciting account of a home-run. There were times, thought Mother, when the spirit of the thing was so much more important than the flesh in which it was clothed.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Mother, Running, Home

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1999). “The Collected Short Works, 1920-1954”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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• 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

  Summer, Son, Sea

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• My life certainly hasn't been ordinary: different is the word. It hasn't always been stable - except in the important things which are love and security within the family. Whenever there were strains at home, we could always communicate. The rule was that the younger you were, the louder you were allowed to scream. As the eldest, I just talked.

  River Phoenix

  Home, Important, Ordinary

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• 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

  Years, Mouths, Speak

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Son, People, Southern

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• The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.

  Anne Rice

  Queens, Lasts, Firsts

  Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.257, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Brother, Father, Son

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• His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo.

  J. D. Salinger

  Blue, Roulette, Tables

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Brother, Children, Book

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.176, New Directions Publishing

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• All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.

  Homer

  Daughter, Eye, Men

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, p.262, Xist Publishing

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• Mortality is a school of suffering and trials. We are here that we may be educated in a school of suffering and of fiery trials, which school was necessary for Jesus, our Elder Brother, who, the scriptures tell us, ‘was made perfect through suffering.’ It is necessary that we suffer in all things, that we may be qualified and worthy to rule, and govern all things, even as our Father in Heaven and His eldest son, Jesus.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Jesus, Brother, Father

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• 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

  Children, Typical, Needs

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• A Half-Blood of the eldest gods, Shall reach sixteen against all odds And see the world in endless sleep The Hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap A single choice shall end his days Olympus to preserve or raze.

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Sleep, Odds

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series”, p.161, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Papa loves you with a dying and infernal love," the youngest girl said. "Undying," the eldest girl corrected. "And eternal.

  Martine Leavitt

  Girl, Love You, Dying

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• It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inheritance on riotous living and go into exile to live with the swine, that children learn or mislearn both what a child and what a parent is, what the cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Kings, Children, Drama

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.251, A&C Black

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• 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

  Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine.

  Johann Hermann Baas

  Daughter, Mother, Medicine

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• When I graduated from school, World War II was still going on. At the time, my eldest sister, Nancy, was working in New York City at Lord & Taylor, and she had a great friend named Sally Kirkland who she worked with there and who later went to work as an editor at Vogue. I always told them, "I want to work in fashion like you do," and finally, in the late '40s, I got a job at Lord & Taylor, too.

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Fashion, War, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It has always touched my heart to sense so deeply how much the Father loved His eldest son.

  Robert D. Hales

  Spiritual, Father, Heart

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