Acknowledgments Thesis Quotes & Sayings

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards. — Lech Walesa

The 1790 Naturalization law determined that "free white persons" could naturalize after two years of residency, and established that the children of citizens would also be citizens. Soon after, in 1795, Congress extended the residency period to five years, and in 1798 extended the residency requirement even further, to fourteen years. — Pratheepan Gulasekaram

But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded. — David Levithan

I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit. — Barbara Kingsolver

Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

it's not your brilliancy that your betrayal someone
but its innocence of that person who believed and trusted on Fake Person — Mohammed Zaki Ansari

In the end, you won't remember much beyond those final all-nighters, the gauche inside joke that sullies an acknowledgments page that only four human beings will ever read, the awkward photograph with your advisor at graduation. All that remains might be the sensation of handing your thesis to someone in the departmental office and then walking into a possibility-rich, almost-summer afternoon. It will be difficult to forget. — Anonymous

When we first trained people to deal with ability problems, it all seemed so simple. You ask others for their ideas, you get to hear their best thoughts, and they feel empowered. What could be easier? Who could possibly mess this up? As it turns out, there are several ways to go wrong. Here are the top three things not to do. — Kerry Patterson

My husband is experimental, loves to cook, and is really good at it. If I do the cooking, I lose my appetite. Why is that? — Jasmine Guinness

I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it. — Elizabeth Olsen

A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods. — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl Of Birkenhead

I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. — William T. Sherman

You can't fix who you are on your own, but God is in the business of transforming broken girls into beautiful trophies of His grace. — Paula Hendricks