Oldest Child Quotes

• 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.

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  Orson Scott Card

  Funny   Children   Mistake  

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.20, Macmillan

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• I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

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  Suzanne Vega

  Children   Responsibility   Parent  

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• The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn't mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else.

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  Billy Graham

  Mother   Children   Father  

  Source: www.cmstory.org

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• Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire.

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  Cassandra Clare

  Children   Home   Ducks  

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1432, Simon and Schuster

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• David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too.

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  Anthony Edwards

  Children   Dad   Artist  

  "Anthony Edwards on Zero Hour, ER, and being Top Gun's "Mr. Lefty Liberal Peace Lover"". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 15, 2013.

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• I've been the oldest child since before you were born

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  E. L. Konigsburg

  Children   Born   Oldest Child  

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.83, Pushkin Press

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• 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.

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  Orson Scott Card

  Mother   Children   Mistake  

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby.

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  John Oliver

  Baby   Children   Crazy  

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