#oldest

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. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#beliefs #curious #example #far #for example

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

— Susan Sontag

#art #disaster #fiction #films #oldest

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. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#beings #between #communicator #compound #computer

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. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#because #bizarre #calls #definitely #everyone

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. ↗

— Ken Burns

#because #born #bridge #brooklyn #children

I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#been #crammed #days #down #experience

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#being #brother #children #family #had

My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#gary #me #minister #ministers #oldest

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. ↗

— James Wolcott

#being #bill #catholic #children #collectors

I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough. ↗

— Gregory Harrison

#boy #cooperation #four #girl #her