Eldest Daughter

Famous quotes containing the words eldest daughter, eldest and/or daughter:

“Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.”
—Thomas Fuller (1608–1661)

“Self-defence is Nature’s eldest law.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)

“The yellow pool has overflowed high up on Clooth-na-Bare,
For the wet winds are blowing out of the clinging air;
Like heavy flooded waters our bodies and our blood;
But purer than a tall candle before the Holy Rood
Is Cathleen, the daughter of Houlihan.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)