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Quotes About Name

Even though I be bound in the Name, I have not yet become perfected in Jesus Christ.
~ Ignatius of Antioch
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
~ Albert Camus
My Chinese name is Man Shing which means 'ten thousand success.' It's a name that's sure to set me up for failure.
~ Jimmy O. Yang
When I first moved to Los Angeles, I came out here with a thousand dollars to my name.
~ Vanna White
Of all the other housekeepers to be assigned to the same floor, she had to get Tori. "As you know, I go by Amanda Lockhart now.
~ Roxanne St. Claire
que tu solo nombre, el de la excelsa beldad que encarnas, ha hecho brotar estrellas sobre el mundo
~ Ruben Dario
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.
~ Ruth Downie
What does the name Ryan mean? Ryan is an Irish/American name that means The Little King or The Little Ruler.
~ Ryan Pack
Though Morgan was a collector as indiscriminate as he was voracious ('a chequebook collector', one of his biographers, John Kennedy Winkler, has called him), he was able to create, by the sheer weight of his name, a valuable provenance of his own.
~ S.N. Behrman
My reading had my mind like steam under pressure. Some way, I had to start telling the white man about himself to his face. I decided to do this by putting my name down to debate.
~ Malcolm X
My application had, of course, been made and during this time I received from Chicago my 'X.' The Muslim's 'X' symbolized the true African family name that he could never know. For me, my X replaced the white slavemaster name of 'Little,' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed upon my paternal fore-bearers. The receipt of my X meant that forever after in the nation of Islam I would be known as Malcolm X.
~ Malcolm X
As with any artistic trend, Twee doesn't become a movement until it gets its own household name. He arrived in the corduroy-draped, beanpole shape of Wes Anderson.
~ Marc Spitz
Envoi we had no voice we had no name we had no choice we had one face one face the same we took the blame it was no fair but now w're here we're all here too the same as you and now we follow you, we find you now, we call to you to you too wit too woo too wit too woo too woo (The Maids sprout feathers, and fly away as owls.)
~ Margaret Atwood
But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one. A story is like a letter. Dear You, I'll say. Just you, without a name. Attaching a name attaches you to the world of fact, which is riskier, more hazardous: who knows what the chances are out there, of survival, yours? I will say you, you, like an old love song.
~ Margaret Atwood
But that's where I am, there's no escaping it. Time's a trap, I'm caught in it. I must forget about my secret name and all ways back. My name is Offred now, and here is where I live.
~ Margaret Atwood
The next year, their first child was born and they named her Katie Scarlett
~ Margaret Mitchell
Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
~ Edna Ferber
I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.
~ William Shenstone
This is my time, this is my hour, This is my pain, this is my name, this is my power. If it's my reign, then it's my shower, This pole position...I made a lane 'cause they blocked ours.
~ Pusha T
My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.
~ Richard Watson Gilder
My name's Darren. I'm a musician, part time idiot. That's a full time job actually.
~ Darren Criss
In Montana, they renamed a town after an all-time great, Joe Montana. Well, a town in Massachusetts changed their name to honor my guy Terry Bradshaw--Marblehead.
~ Howie Long
I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name
~ Bob Dylan