Quotes About Name

The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name.

I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.

I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes.

He stole my music but he gave me my name.

I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.

There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

Without the Name, there is no peace.

I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

My name, Paloma, means 'dove' in Spanish. It stands as a symbol of peace and purity.

There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God.

PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

Thus it is, we sow motions of hatred out of our own impoverished understanding of love. Yet we do so in the name of love. The perplexing precipice of the illusory infirmity.

With time one ages, and with age one comes closer to their end. With time one builds a family, a house, a name and with age one learns to live without them.

I love the sweet sound of my name when you say it with love.

May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.

My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.

They say she is too much to handle, but when the moon pulls the tide and the wolves howl her name, blessed are the ones who have been taken by her wild.

The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!