Eldest Son

Famous quotes containing the words eldest and/or son:

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

“Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)