#quaint

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge. ↗

— John Pople

#became #cambridge #during #earlier #i

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world. ↗

— Elihu Root

#another #another way #better #each #good

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. ↗

— Akshay Kumar

#acquainted #became #become #each #family

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

— Bertrand Russell

#must #name #particular #understand #which

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. ↗

— Mark Shields

#advocate #any #bridge #build #committees

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#acquaintances #boast #complain #kinds #need

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#bosom #friends #growing #growing old #like

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

— Gertrude Stein

#about #acquainted #extraordinary #forget #them

A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called. ↗

— Maria Monk

#called #charity #number #nunnery #nuns

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein. ↗

— Gregory Peck

#albert #albert einstein #einstein #extent #great