I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.
~ Dale T. Mortensen
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
~ Billie Holiday
My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to give up, it was her. But she didn't, and neither did we.
~ Chuck Norris
I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.
~ Will.i.am
My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
~ Hailee Steinfeld
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
~ Ron Paul
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
~ John Adams
When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.
~ David Mamet
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
~ Charles De Secondat
As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.
~ Dan Pfeiffer
Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.
~ Barton Gellman
It's weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends.
~ Carrot Top
If there's three boxes that say 'Single', 'In a Relationship,' and the third one says 'Getting Money', I'd check the third one.
~ Bryson Tiller
Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
~ Dick Armey
There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.
~ Steven Soderbergh
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
~ A. A. Milne
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
~ Plato
'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.
~ Alejandro González Iñárritu
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
~ Henry James
I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.
~ Morgan Freeman
Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.
~ Helen Fisher
For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
~ David Fincher
The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.
~ Bobby Locke
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
~ Alfred De Musset
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
~ Yakov Smirnoff
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
~ Bodhidharma
I understand only three things - films, fitness, and food.
~ Rakul Preet Singh
How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one to reminisce about how good the old one was.
~ Christopher Buckley
If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?
~ Ian Botham
Basically, when I get home I just do emails for around three hours, which stinks. I have a thing about getting into your inbox every night before going to bed. I'm usually working from my laptop or my phone, desperately trying to get my inbox to zero before I fall asleep.
~ Ivanka Trump
This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.
~ Jerry Costello
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
~ Charles Dickens
I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.
~ Michael Franti
If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
~ Charles Morgan
Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.
~ Mo Ibrahim
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
~ Heraclitus
I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.
~ Sammy Davis
There was a thing on Facebook that said, 'Describe George Clooney's wedding in three words,' and my answer was, 'Not invited again.'
~ Michael O'keefe
Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set.
~ Travis Scott
