Acquainted Quotes

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.

Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it.

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.

To see and be acquainted with strangers, in especial with men in honour and authority.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.