#father

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I. ↗

— Douglass North

#before #born #both #brother #brother and sister

My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school. ↗

— Douglass North

#boy #company #completed #even #father

When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco. ↗

— Douglass North

#been #came #coast #college #company

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#allow #anything #before #clearly #concept

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#average #average american #before #children #father

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#back #came #come #difficult #early

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#born #chauffeur #cook #county #early

The day I won an Emmy was also the day my father passed away. I received a call from my sister on the way to the ceremony and had to turn my car around and catch the first flight back to Karachi. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#around #away #back #call #car

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#either #emotional #fathers #mothers #reserved

Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#basic idea #child #chooses #create #deliberately