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)
“The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 7:25.