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Quotes About Name

Ah,' said the journalist, 'so the entire thing is your own invention. I thought it was true because you gave the name of the street.' I did not dare tell him that the naming of streets is not much of a feat.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
El Destino (tal es el nombre que aplicamos a la infinita operación incesante de millares de causas entreveradas) no lo resolvió así.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I suppose that everyone of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
~ A. A. Milne
Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
~ A. Bronson Alcott
If you name things, then you treat them better.
~ Aaron Starmer
Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.
~ Abraham Lincoln
someone I could hold up to my ear and hear the ocean, something I could say my name into, and have it returned in the inky waves.
~ Ada Limón
I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.
~ Adam Carolla
Graffiti, citizens, is the name for the way capitalists deface their public buildings.
~ Adam Johnson
Z matki obcej; krew jego dawne bohatery, A imi? jego b?dzie czterdzie?ci i cztery.
~ Adam Mickiewicz
Na trzech stoi koronach, a sam bez korony; A ?ycie jego - trud trudów, A tytu? jego - lud ludów; Z matki obcej, krew jego dawne bohatery, A imi? jego czterdzie?ci i cztery.
~ Adam Mickiewicz
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
~ Adela Florence Nicolson
What does a title mean to me? I do not need a title. My name, which I achieved with my own strength, is my title. I only wish that posterity would sometime confirm the fact that I have striven to achieve my program decently and honestly..
~ Adolf Hitler
Almost no one would publish his name or the circumstances of his death because in Pakistan, individual, daily sacrifice was never commemorated and instead was drowned out by the cacophony of the continual mayhem.
~ Adrian Levy
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
~ Adrienne Rich
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
When I'm applying for a new passport or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.
~ Kit Harington
I was allowed to take my adoptive father's surname. My birth certificate has a different name. My passport has both my adoptive and biological father's surnames.
~ Dia Mirza
Dia is the way my name was originally spelt. When I was applying for my passport for the Femina Miss India Contest, someone spelt my name as Diya. Since it was on my passport, I couldn't do much about it.
~ Dia Mirza
Paul is an awful name. I might as well be Bob.
~ Paul Bettany
I'm not a huge spender. Sometimes when you pay a lot, you're paying for the company's advertising. It feels ridiculous to pay for a name.
~ Evelyne Brochu
I am proud to wear the name Le Pen.
~ Marion Marechal-Le Pen
I wore No. 25 in college, so naturally when I arrived in Orlando, I wanted that number, but Nick Anderson had it. I decided to go with No. 1 because of my name, Penny.
~ Penny Hardaway
Get in theater, really work your craft. Get really, really good so that when people say your name, your name is associated with quality, with integrity.
~ Freddy Rodriguez