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Quotes About Name

Nadeshiko loved cherry blossoms. When she was little she said if she ever had a girl she'd name her Sakura. And you're that Sakura.
~ CLAMP
Your full name, Kama Ho'omaluhia i ka La'i, means 'child who brings peace.
~ Clemence McLaren
You know my name?" "Of course I do." "Well, that is fine," said Enoch. "And what about your own?" "I am seized with great embarrassment," the alien told him. "For I have no name as such. Identification, surely, that fits the purpose of my race, but nothing that the tongue can form.
~ Clifford D. Simak
A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!
~ Clive Barker
Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than I'll never leave you.
~ Clive Barker
They had a leader. Some rebel. Shite! I don't remember his name. You know me and names. He was a dickhead and everybody says so. And old Bitch Tits kicked him down here. He started some rebellion." "Lucifer?" "That's the one. Lucifer. They prayed to Lucifer.
~ Clive Barker
That'll put us about a hundred miles due east of Ho Chi Minh City in another five hours." The name always caught Max off guard. Vietnam's largest city would always be Saigon to him.
~ Clive Cussler
I never got Dad's name. The name on an envelope that was sticking out of his pocket read 'Clive Cussler.' That IS an odd name. Yet it sounds vaguely familiar. Whoever.
~ Clive Cussler
Oh. Really? Smith? The most common, boring name in the world? - Evaline, to Pix
~ Colleen Gleason
The conflict in Europe was terrible and violent, she told her sailor, but she took exception to the name. The Great War had always been between the white and the black. It always would be.
~ Colson Whitehead
it was forbidden to tread with your feet on the name of G-d.
~ Colum McCann
Troy has fallen—and fallen let her stay— with the very name of Troy!
~ Virgil
In a world which contains the present moment, why discriminate? Nothing should be named lest by so doing we change it.
~ Virginia Woolf
Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
also toyed with The Anthemion which is the name of a honeysuckle ornament, consisting of elaborate interlacements and expanding clusters, but nobody liked it;
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The name yawned like a black doorway, then the door banged.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
~ Lao-Tzu, Tao te Ching
She narrowed her eyes and concentrated on his mouth. Name. He wanted her name. She had to think about it for a second before she remembered. Great. She must have hit her head. Which, duh, explained the headache.
~ Larissa Ione
Here's the truth about organic writing: It's just story planning by another name.
~ Larry Brooks
Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair... Change my name, just see what happens.
~ Larry David
in Philippians 2:9-11, Jesus' exaltation by "God" even involves him being given "the name that is above every name" (NRSV) and being designated as the one whom all of creation is to acclaim as "Lord.
~ Larry W. Hurtado
Note also the ritual use of Jesus' name in Christian baptism, the common initiation rite in early Christian circles (e.g., Acts 2:38). Paul's rhetorical question to the Corinthians, "Were you baptized in the name of Paul?" (1 Cor 1:13 NRSV)
~ Larry W. Hurtado
He likes you," Miss Dove said, sounding surprised. "Yes," Harry answered with an unhappy sigh. He had long ago accepted the fact that cats adored him. The reason, of course, was because both God and cats had the same perverse sense of humor. When the animal buried its claws in his thigh and began to knead with happy abandon, he set his jaw and bore it. "Mr. Pigeon? Rather fitting for you to choose that name, Miss Dove. Both birds, you know.
~ Laura Lee Guhrke
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
~ Laura Riding