Top 676 Oldest Quotes & Sayings

Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.

Jake Johnson is one of my oldest friends.

My mom had me at a young age, like 20, and she was the oldest child. All her brothers were seven and 10, so I was like a younger brother more so than the oldest child. I was the younger brother to all my uncles, so they were going through their childhood and their teenage years, and I was right there.

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

Ones oldest friend is the best.

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.

Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

I was the oldest model in South Africa - I grew up in South Africa, but I was born in Canada - and then when I moved back to Canada, to Toronto, at 42, I was a grandmother doing front covers. I was the oldest model in Canada.

I must be the oldest living child soprano.

Being the fastest/oldest is a crazy title to have.

It was the oldest sound there was. Souls flying away.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

Wrestling is one of the earliest and oldest martial arts there is.

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?

I'm the oldest antique in town.

The redemption plot is one of the oldest story shapes.

I'm the oldest I've ever been, right now.

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.

American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is length of time in the fishbowl. The oldest resident picks on the newest resident, and if the newest resident is removed to a new bowl, he, as oldest resident, will pick on the newcomers.

My oldest brother was a police officer.

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

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.

Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)

I am the oldest in our family. I have three younger brothers. I needed to set a great example for them. It instilled a sense of competition in me and hunger to strive to be the best. There's a lot of pride being the only girl and the oldest.

The oldest and most important currency is debt.

I have the oldest whiplash in the business.

It's healthy to have older friends. You go, 'Look, I'm younger than them!' That's always the nice thing, if you can be the youngest one in the room at times. Like if you're always the oldest one in the room, you'll start to feel like the oldest person in the world. So get older friends, because they're cool. Get cool older friends.

The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don't.

So far, this is the oldest I've been.

Tragedy is the oldest form of theatre.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

I'm the oldest pretty face around.

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

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

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

Platitudes are generally the oldest and profoundest of truths.

He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.

Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.

I'm the oldest of three girls. My sisters say I can be bossy.

The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

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

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 think oldest children have a different mentality or know that there were different expectations of them, and I was not only the oldest child - I was the oldest grandchild of 18 grandchildren. I definitely grew up feeling like there were a lot of people who expected me to do something. But it was a very conservative family, very conservative neighborhood. I'm talking mid- to late '60s when I was growing up there, and so if I had stayed in the Boston area, I think my life would have been radically different.

My biggest love is space. I completed 800 hours' space training in Moscow and I became the world's oldest man to go to the North Magnetic Pole. At 67, I also became the oldest man to reach 28,400ft on Everest without oxygen.

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

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

Crank-calling people is the oldest bit in the world.

Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six." "Right." "And you're the oldest." "Yes." "That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.

I'll be, like, the oldest rapper alive.

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

I'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band.

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

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

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

My father is the oldest of seven boys.

man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.