Eldest Daughter Quotes:

Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine.

- Johann Hermann Baas

topic: Mother Daughter, Medicine, Eldest Daughter, Botany

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

- Thomas Fuller

topic: Beauty, God, Daughter, Eldest Daughter, Eldest

If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter.

- Edward Thomas

source: Edward Thomas, “If I Should Ever By Chance”

topic: Daughter, Rose, Chance, Eldest Daughter

Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.

- Homer

topic: Daughter, Men, Feet, Eldest Daughter, Iliad

I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian clothes and take them out for the day and pretend they were mine.

- Sadie Frost

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Beautiful, Daughter, Mother, Eldest Daughter, Pretty Face

There's no discounting the antagonism the average woman feels for the eldest daughter. The infuriating thing is that most mothers blame the daughters for their hatred when it's just what makes the mother pig eat her first batch of young. Of course one can't tell them that.

- Mari Sandoz

source: Mari Sandoz (1992). “Letters of Mari Sandoz”, p.67, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Daughter, Mother, Pigs, Eldest Daughter, Eldest

I grew up an only child, so I was so much more adult. My eldest daughter is 10, and I was so much more of an adult than she is. She just doesn't care for the real world. She's not interested.

- Samantha Bee

source: Interview with Catherine O’Hara, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2016.

topic: Daughter, Children, Real, Eldest Daughter