Quotes About Name

Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.

I did all this standup comedy in college, and from that point on, I tried to develop myself and get my name back out there.

I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear my father's name was hard enough, but to work in pictures to boot was pretty foolhardy. In fact, my father was totally against it. He thought I should be off getting a good education and go into some safe profession.

One time, I went to an audition, and I stated my name, and the lady was like, 'Oh, that name sounds really familiar. I've seen you on TMZ.' Her first perception of me was what she had heard.

At a Metro station, I got called out by my character name - Meera - and I realised that I had started responding to that quite intuitively. It was quite a funny moment.

There are, I believe, three steps to overcoming fear: name it, normalise it, socialise it.

I ask not now a lover's smile-- These eyes are sunk and dim; But in their ruin, they possess An eloquence for him; Though others pass me--from his heart More sympathy I claim; When I am gone--perchance he'll weep Whene'er he hears my name.

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

Our present condition, is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect Independance contending for dependance.

Men do not change from enemies to friends by the alteration of a name:

The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound will enlarge with the tree, and posterity read it in full grown characters.

When we profess God's name, but do not live answerably to it, we take it in vain.

The glory we give God is nothing else but our lifting up his name in the world, and magnifying him in the eyes of others. Phil 1:10. Christ shall be magnified in my body.

Vemos aquí la honra y dignidad del creyente. Tiene el nombre de Dios escrito sobre sí (Ap. 3:12), al Espíritu Santo que habita en él (2 Ti. 1:14), y una guardia de ángeles que le asiste.

The student of Comparative Religions will be able to perceive the influence of the Hermetic Teachings in every religion worthy of the name...

The LORD bless you and keep you: The LORD make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you: The LORD lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace. (Nm 6:24-26) The instructions continue, "So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them" (Nm 6:27).

I wanted to change my name when I first started because I thought, 'No-one is going to believe that it is my name.'

My mother chose 'Jordan' as my middle name, as a nod to her favorite basketball player.

I will never be able to endorse a nominee for president whose name is not known.

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'

George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.

My name got kind of hot as a D.J. around town; on the north side of town, they had 'D.J. Juicy J.' That's what I called myself: 'The Notorious D.J. Juicy J.'