#oldest

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

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

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

— Alfred Austin

#bottom #class #constantly #even #gardening

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#documentary #documentary film #film #five #got

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

— Beau Bridges

#friends #oldest #only #place #some

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

— Samuel Butler

#just #oldest #only #out #read

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. ↗