"It is at our mother's knee that we……" — Mark Twain
"It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them."
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- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila
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- I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any… — Edward de Bono
- Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. — Nathaniel Branden
- Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money… — Eli Broad
- As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge. — Jeb Bush
- Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly… — Smedley Butler
- I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement;… — Vince Cable
- I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it. — Taylor Caldwell
- Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to… — Alexander Hamilton
- Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and… — George Fordyce