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The vampire had humiliated her and her oldest friend, but she still missed him to an aching degree. — Kresley Cole

The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest. — Chinua Achebe

It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist! — Jack O'Brien

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. — Margaret Mead

What boy could resist you?"
"Will's hardly a boy."
"Don't give me that. He's a boy playing a game," Norris said. "The oldest game there is. — Caragh M. O'Brien

I'm not only the best-known daredevil on the face of the earth, I'm the oldest. — Evel Knievel

I'm happy if everybody else is. I'm a big brother, the oldest. If you're happy and I'm not, I'm cool with that. If I'm happy and you're not, I'm sad. — Chris Rock

Nothing like cleaning the whole house while my siblings sing "O Canada" - #oldestchildsyndrome. — Michelle N. Onuorah

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age. — Thomas Carlyle

I must be the oldest living child soprano. — Kathryn Grayson

It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most.
It is older than the oldest speech of Rome.
This is the tragic accent of the scene. — Wallace Stevens

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around. — Johnnetta B. Cole

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

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

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest. — Barbara Kingsolver

Dont switch the blame to her, that's the oldest trick of all cowards — Ayn Rand

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it. — Aaron Levie

Commit the oldest sins, the newest kind of ways — William Shakespeare

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it. — Aldo Leopold

My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too. — Gene Perret

I have the oldest whiplash in the business. — Donna McKechnie

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man. — Louis Nizer

I'm the oldest and I've got two sisters. — Lisa Snowdon

The oldest and most important currency is debt. — Kabir Sehgal

I am the world's oldest teenager. I've never lost my youthful attitude. — Rodney Dangerfield

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail. — Greil Marcus

Openness to my own dreams puts me in touch with the oldest, most human aspects of who I am; it helps me find my place in the community of man. — Sheldon B. Kopp

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

He was the oldest. When we left Kentucky, our folks told him to look after me. Didn't say a word to me. Wouldn't have occurred to them. — Micheal Punke

Girls. The oldest mystery in the universe. — Linda Sue Park

Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers. — A.D. Posey

My oldest brother was a big influence on the films I watched as a kid. — Seann William Scott

Come take a look at one of the oldest human urges- religion. After all, the only thing that makes us screwier is sex. — Lilith Saintcrow

Never choose the card a man wants you to. Mat should have realized that. It was one of the oldest cons in creation. — Robert Jordan

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

I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church. — John Harvey Kellogg

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

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man. — Henry David Thoreau

That's one of the oldest tricks in the world, Adrien-with-an-e. — Josh Lanyon

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. — Smedley Butler

Yes, Yes. Indians were the oldest civilization on Earth, the greatest, the best. And only Indians had culture. Others were all dumb nomads and whores. — Manu Joseph

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

Ones oldest friend is the best. — Plautus

I am the oldest of 4 kids. — Shay Carl

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. — Samuel Butler

Spiritual love is when you see new faces as the oldest. — Michael Bassey Johnson

It is necessary to possess the oldest manuscripts, they aid genuine references in case of doubt. — Auliq Ice

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

My oldest brother was in 'The Andy Griffith Show' as one of Opie's friends. — Suzanne Crough

Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession. — Phil Plait

I'm the oldest antique in town. — Norman Rockwell

Here lies the bodies of three brothers... enwrapt in silence and the Arms of Death, Exposed to Worms lies three once charming Boys... 1784 — Diana Hollingsworth Gessler

Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization. — Igor Youskevitch

The redemption plot is one of the oldest story shapes. — Peter Baynham

I'm the oldest out of five. — Jamie Anne Allman

I began to sense that a big part of our problem is simple ignorance of what the oldest cultures have to teach. — Gloria Steinem

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

One of the oldest longings of all people of mystical sensibility is to be rid of disguises to the point of becoming naked. — Dorothee Solle

I think the interesting aspect of life is that you're always sort of in the middle. You're never the youngest and you're never the oldest. — Brie Larson

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions. — Robin Morgan

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last. — Henry David Thoreau

Most of our oldest memories are the product of repeated rehearsal and reconstruction. — Ulric Neisser

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. — Fred Astaire

It's the oldest story in the world. You want him back, don't you? — Larry Kramer

I see myself as the world's oldest living teenager ... I try to get as much kick out of things as possible. — Iris Apfel

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love. — P.G. Wodehouse

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death. — Carlos Fuentes

Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals. — Barbara G. Walker

Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project," a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation. — James C. Scott

Why the Devil survived for so long? Is it because he is the Devil or is it because he is much smarter than the oldest guy around? Go figure. — Boris Zubry

I was a switchboard operator on the first season of 'Mad Men.' I was the oldest and bitterest. — Stephanie Courtney

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm. — Ashwin Sanghi

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions. — Derek Bok

I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion. — Herbert Hoover

That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user! — Daniel Clowes

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses. — Henry David Thoreau

Pg 9, The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence. — Fernando Pessoa

We loved - and were fated to sorrow. But from our striving and from our sorrow we fashioned The Oldest Story in the World. — Ross Lockridge Jr.

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues. — Arthur Levitt

Alecto was the oldest, unceasing in anger. Magaera was next, retaliator of jealousy, and Tisiphone, the last, regarded as the avenger of murder. — Elisabeth Naughton

Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line. — Ric Flair

I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room. — Isabel Allende

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

There were only six adults in the oldest picture,and all of them looked really serious,like they'd probably kicked kittens for fun. — Rachel Hawkins

War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks. — Barbara Ehrenreich

The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin. — Jessie Andrews

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. — Ronald Reagan

I died and then was brought to life, the oldest tale there is. I — Justin Cronin

The world's oldest university, University of Karaouin, was established by a Muslim woman in Fez, Morocco in 859 — Firas Alkhateeb

The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings. — Apostolos Doxiadis

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95. — Gail Carriger

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom. — Thomas Carlyle

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Even the oldest stories are new to somebody ... — Neil Gaiman

Storytelling is among the oldest forms of communication. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings, in all
places, in all times. — Rives Collins

This week, a 95-year-old woman married a 98-year-old man to become the world's oldest newlyweds. They're registered at Bed, Sponge Bath and Beyond. — Jimmy Fallon

I'm the oldest pretty face around. — Lauren Hutton