Acquainted Quotes

(After many years of broadcasting games there, Campbell is well-acquainted with the magic the Palestra holds.) There`s something about the place when you walk in the door, ... IT dates back to the days of the depression when it was built, and it`s never changed very much. No one`s ever tried to make it state of the art. It is what it is. We have brand new stadiums all over Philadelphia - we have a new baseball park, a new football park, we have the Wachovia Center - but people still love going to the Palestra. There`s something about walking in the doors of the Palestra.

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.

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.

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.

The communication formed by the small bones of the ear is, to look upon, more like what we are accustomed to call machinery than anything I am acquainted with in animal bodies. It seems evidently designed.

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

(One account, in J. Henry Cartland`s) Ten Years at Pemaquid, ... came over to this country with the view of settling here, but left his wife in the old country, until he could first make himself a little acquainted with the new country, and provide a suitable place for his family. Though he escaped from the wreck unhurt, his mind was deeply affected by his narrow escape, and he wrote to his wife such a doleful account of the storm and shipwreck that she never could be persuaded to undertake the voyage, even to join her husband. And he was too timid to risk himself again on the stormy Atlantic, they remained separated the rest of their lives.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about 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.

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

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

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.

That song is best esteemed with which our ears are most acquainted

Then the sessions will get a little more challenging. Until then, it wouldn`t be fair for us to explore what visions they would have in leading Mercer as president. They don`t know Mercer very well. This first session is more of a getting-acquainted session.