Quotes About Name

My mother named me Violet after a tiny flower she loved as a girl growing up in San Francisco, a city I have seen only in postcards. I grew to hate my name. The courtesans pronounced it like the Shanghainese word vyau-la—what you said when you wanted to get rid of something. "Vyau-la! Vyau-la!" greeted me everywhere

God grants healing to glorify the name of Jesus. Let us seek to be healed by Jesus so that His name may be glorified

Jesus would train us to the blessed life of consecration and service, in which our interests are all subordinate to the Name, and the Kingdom, and the Will of the Father.

It must be to the glory of God, in full surrender to His will, in full assurance of faith, in the name of Jesus, and with a perseverance that, if need be, refuses to be denied.

be to the glory of God, in full surrender to His will, in full assurance of faith, in the name of Jesus, and with a perseverance that, if need be, refuses to be denied.

one. Children of God! it is thus Jesus would have us to pray to the Father in heaven. O let His Name, and Kingdom, and Will, have the first place in our love;

We see thus that everything depends on our own relation to the Name: the power it has on my life is the power it will have in my prayers.

Take it easy, Kelea, said Thrash, grinning at me. Kelea? I repeated. A legendary Hawaiian princess who made friends with the water god. She was a radical surfer, he said. Oh, I replied, blushing. Well, thanks. I guess I better practice if I want to live up to that name.

I am Rose Howard and my first name has a homonym. To be accurate, it has a homophone, which is a word that's pronounced the same as another word but spelled differently.

And now, Myriah went on, as if she and Gabbie were putting on a show. We will perform that oldy but goody, Blue Suede Shoes by Mr. Elvis Presley. Claudia was even more impressed. Apparently, Myriah and Gabbie knew an entire rock and roll song and she didn't. Furthermore, for years, Claudia had thought that the singer's name was Elbow Presley.

Van Wort was fat and his name was Van Wort. With that combination, why would you pack your kid off to camp? Let him play with ladybugs in the safety of his own lawn.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?

sheers.Garth'sDispensat.2. A reproachful name for a dark complexion. Laura, to his lady, was but a kitchen-wench; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy; Helen and Hero hildings and harlots.Shakespeare'sRomeo and Juliet.3. A

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast. - (1772-1834)

Pax? That's his name? It means 'peace,' you know." Peter knew that—lots of people had told him. "But

What was the name of Pygmalion's sister? She blinked, twice, obviously surprised. Ummm, she said, keeping her eyes on me. I don't know. Rogerson did, I told her. Rogerson knew everything.

Big weddings meant big money and, with Bee's fiancé, Kevin Yu, from a family that owned a big pharmaceutical company, big attention. Personally, I wanted to know if she planned to change her name, switching from Bee Little to Bee Yu, but had not found a way to work this into a meeting. Yet.

She named her horse Basil? That's the worst name for a horse I ever heard.

So be it. In my mind the beginning of a life, especially if it seems destined to be a challenging one, deserves the most promising name you can come up with. A beginning kind of name. Like Dawn, Or Hope. Or Aurora.

Being a humble person, she gave her pie shop a humble name—PIE.

All comes at last to feeling; Name is but sound and smoke, Beclouding Heaven's warm glow.

Feeling is everything, name is but sound and smoke that damp celestial ardor.

Tis feeling all; Name is but sound and smoke Shrouding the glow of heaven.

Dafür! Gefühl ist alles; Name ist Schall und Rauch, Umnebelnd Himmelsglut.