Famous quotes containing the words eldest, living and/or son:
“Self-defence is Nature’s eldest law.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)
“In the umbra, the tunnel, when the mind went wombtomb, then it was real thought and real living, living thought.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.
The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.