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)
“Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)