Eldest Element Founded

Famous quotes containing the words eldest, element and/or founded:

    “Self-defence is Nature’s eldest law.”
    —John Dryden (1631–1700)

    “What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself—life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose?”
    —Willa Cather (1873–1947)

    “With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)