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Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward. Jane Addams
Parents always make their worst mistakes with their 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. Orson Scott Card
I didn't particularly feel like being arrested, so I argued with the soldiers a bit. Several of them died during the argument - those things happen once in a while. Unfortunately, one of the casualties was Taur Urgas' oldest son. The king of the Murgos took it personally. He's very narrow-minded sometimes. - Silk David Eddings
If the truth is that after there comes a negatively spiritual life, an eternity of mystical experience, what more misleading way of communicating it could possibly be found than the appearance of a human form which eats boiled fish? Again, on such a view, the body would really be a hallucination. And any theory of hallucination breaks down on the fact (and if it is invention, it is the oldest invention that ever entered the mind of man) that on three separate occasions this hallucination was... C. S. Lewis
[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest. John Steinbeck
Stephen King quote: "Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and..."
Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic. Stephen King
We shall have gone deeper than the deeps of heaven and grown older than the oldest angels before we feel, even in its first faint vibrations, the everlasting violence of that double passion with which God hates and loves the world. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
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
Constance Baker Motley quote: "I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation..."
I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted. Constance Baker Motley
My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time. Phil Mickelson
Margaret Mead quote: "One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder..."
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. Margaret Mead
Burleigh Grimes quote: "The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he..."
The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself. Burleigh Grimes
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now. Sadie Frost

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