Peter Zumthor

The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.

Swiss Architect

Chris O'Dowd

Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.

Irish Actor

Marie Antoinette

I feel more and more, every day of my life, how much my dear mamma has done for my establishment. I was the youngest of all her daughters, and she has treated me as if I were the eldest, so that my whole soul is filled with the most tender gratitude.

French Royalty

John Hume

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

Irish Politician

Naveen Andrews

I still have a great friendship with my eldest son's mum. She's my mate. We have this wonderful son who's 6 ft. 3, gorgeous, and I'm his dad. I've not been a total failure.

British Actor

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.

American Judge

Emily Dickinson

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

American Poet

John Webster

English Playwright

John Dryden

English Poet

Sanam Saeed

Pakistani Actress

Used to specify hierarchy in family based on age, with a respectful tone towards tradition and family.

Family Position

In some cultures, the eldest sibling has a role with more responsibilities and is given more respect.

Cultural Respect

Don't assume 'eldest' implies leadership or superiority; it refers just to age within a group.

Hierarchy Misassumption

 someone turned around to me on the bus and asked where are you going because there were no hotels. There was no place to go and I just said I'm gonna go camping at the end of the bus route and they just shook their heads and they said we're going to a wedding, come with us and I ended up at the wedding of the eldest daughter

Nat Geo's Aaron Huey's...

 helped by an extensive system of horse messengers and relay posts. Robust trade continued at sea, especially in blue-and-white porcelain, which combined white pottery from Mongol China with blue dye from Mongol Iran. But this was not to last. Succession to the Great Khan didn't automatically go to the eldest son,

The rise and fall of the...

 well I'm gonna camp when the bus stops at the end of the road and she just looked at me she said no hoko please don't do that and she took me with her and she took me to a wedding and that wedding was of the eldest daughter of the family that ended up adopting me in this region and they got me drunk and

A Photographer Revisits...

 and a supporter of a soccer team that most of her children detested my maternal grandmother who sexually racy jokes outraged her children was pregnant 14 times 11 survived the eldest is my mother who became the first woman in her

I am here to confuse you...

 A hush comes over the anxious slaves. In walks not their master but, instead, a pregnant teenager. It is the master's eldest daughter, age 15, who is already a veteran of marriage and child birth. Guess what her name is.

Four sisters in Ancient...

 but the pair live a half-life. Shunned by the wider community, the two have only each other and the ghost for company. Sethe is consumed by thoughts of the spirit, whom she believes to be her eldest daughter.

Why should you read Toni...

 and I am the eldest of five children. I have three sisters and one brother. They are all average height. I am incredibly fortunate to have been born into a family that cultivated my curiosity and my tenacity,

Why design should...

 you're not going to change the trajectory of whether that student will be ready for college. So Melinda, this is you and your eldest daughter, Jenn. And just taken about three weeks ago, I think,

Why giving away our...

 How did it happen in others? When my eldest son was 16 years old, he discovered that when white people look at him, they feel fear. Elevators are the worst, he said. When those doors close,

How racial bias works --...

 traveling with her eldest daughter flip has a soft spot for this lioness but she didn't endear herself to the people of poorest as a youngster she killed

Eldest