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Quotes About Name

Nurse Angela, with her love of cats and orphans, once remarked of Homer Wells that the boy must adore the name she gave him because he fought so hard not to lose it.
~ John Irving
As inscribed on John Keats' tombstone: This Grave contains all that was Mortal, of a YOUNG ENGLISH POET, Who on his Death Bed, in the Bitterness of his Heart, at the Malicious Power of his Enemies Desired these Words to be engraven on his Tomb Stone: Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water. Feb 24 1821
~ John Keats
Oh, my God! Ignatius mumbled, looking at the austere little calling card. You can't really be named Dorian Greene. Yes, isn't that wild? Dorian asked languidly. If I told you my real name, you'd never speak to me again. It's so common I could die just thinking of it. I was born on a wheat farm in Nebraska. You can take it from there.
~ John Kennedy Toole
The boa constrictor is the only living animal whose common name is exactly the same as its scientific name.
~ John Lloyd
Krungthep Mahanakhon Amorn Rattanakosin Mahintara Yudthaya Mahadilok Pohp Noparat Rajathanee Bureerom Udomrajniwes Mahasatarn Amorn Pimarn Avaltarnsatit Sakatattiya Visanukram Prasit.
~ John Lloyd
If you thought "Rabbie Burns" wrote "Auld Lang Syne," you'd be doubly wrong. Burns never signed his name "Rabbie" or "Robbie" (or, indeed, "Bobbie" Burns, as some North Americans insist on calling him). His signatures included "Robert," "Robin," "Rab"—and, on at least one occasion, "Spunkie.
~ John Lloyd
the editor-in-chief of Screw Machine Engineering, a magazine whose name a hyphen would have improved. In
~ John McPhee
Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs.
~ Rick Perry
Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
~ B. R. Ambedkar
What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.
~ Frederick William Robertson
I want my name to be a brand in comedy. I hope my name stands for comedic excellence.
~ Chris Rock
Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.
~ Raymond Aron
The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.
~ Georges Bataille
The dance of darkness must spout blood into the air, in the name of the experience of evil
~ Tatsumi Hijikata
Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the center of the social media experience.
~ Unknown
i'm wiz a girl, i call her name 10 times before you breathe once, it's not majic, it's not logic, it's just a love!
~ Unknown
Each breathe I take, says your name. Each time heart beats, sings your fame. Each word I speak, wear your love in main, See what says time, it was just your game.
~ Unknown
My heart keeps me breathing, for every beat it whispers your name, it whispers I Love You.
~ Unkown
I love it when you look at me, with those eyes of ocean blue, I love it when you say my name, our love is strong and true, I love it when you hold me close, I miss you in my arms, I need your arms around me to protect me from all harm.
~ Unknown
The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change.
~ Unknown
This is Lord Diomedes, King of Argos," Lycomedes said. "A comrade of Odysseus." And another suitor of Helen's, though I remembered no more than his name.
~ Madeline Miller
The sons of Troy are known for their skill in battle, and their deaths will lift your name to the stars. If you miss it, you will miss your chance at immortality.
~ Madeline Miller
The prettiest name for a cannibal I've ever heard. Don't be so dramatic. He can't be a cannibal, there are no other Minotaurs to eat.
~ Madeline Miller
Agamemnon nods, a dismissal, and we turn to go. Iphigenia. A tripping name, the sound of goat hooves on rock, quick, lively, lovely.
~ Madeline Miller