#ice

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

And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II. ↗

— Oliver North

#country #even #fact #far #fewer

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one. ↗

— Oliver North

#america #been #ever #haven #i

I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go! ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#area #desire #down #ever #go

My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#air #air force #crew #dad #direct

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever. ↗

— Edward Norton

#contemporary #devices #dramatic #feel #i

It's nice when someone knows their lines. ↗

— Edward Norton

#lines #nice #someone #their

I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive. ↗

— Graham Norton

#bet #heart #i #maurice #monitor

We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared. ↗

— Joshua A. Norton

#act #cabinet #declared #decree #democrat