#north

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#come #england #expectation #fairly #had

As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#administration #also #answers #central #clinic

And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#civil #civil war #dance #especially #love

I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do. ↗

— Kay Hagan

#better #carolina #i #important #looking

To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#agree #became #china #competition #could

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana. ↗

— James Welch

#also #anyone #become #bit #could

We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building. ↗

— Orville Wright

#building #feet #ground #hundred #laid

Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#canadian #cost #customers #due #effective

The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#now #on-line #out #production #run

Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice. ↗

— Don Young

#arctic #community #covered #farming #found