(19 quotes found)
“Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.”
John Webster
“[The answer to that, warns Saddam's eldest son, is no.] If they come, ... Sept. 11, which they are crying over and see as a big thing, will be a real picnic for them, God willing.”
Uday Hussein
“She must have thrown the eldest in first. He would have fought her,”
Joyce Harris
“Then when they despaired of him, they retired, conferring privately together. The eldest of them said: Do you not know that your father took from you a covenant in Allah's name, and how you fell short of your duty with respect to Yusuf before? Therefore I will by no means depart from this land until my father permits me or Allah decides for me, and He is the best of the judges: / Go back to your father and say: O our father! surely your son committed theft, and we do not bear witness except to what we have known, and we could not keep watch over the unseen: / And inquire in the town in which we were and the caravan with which we proceeded, and most surely we are truthful.”
quran
“The eldest alone may take the whole paternal estate, the others shall live under him just as ,they lived under their father.”
Guru Nanak
“He was the eldest son. We loved him very much but we don't know what went wrong with him. He was misguided by some elements.”
Gulam Mustafa
“And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.”
Bible
“Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.”
“And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: / And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: / But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.”
