Eldest Element Founded

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

    Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises very well, considering we never controlled him much.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    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)

    All government—indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act—is founded on compromise and barter.
    Edmund Burke (1729–1797)