Quotes About Naming

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

My mother and I have always had a very close relationship, so I wanted to honor my mom by naming my daughter Julia as well.

We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get the kind of god we need; that is, a god after our own likeness.

Ultimately, the naming of buildings is not a mechanism by which history is kept alive. It is a mechanism by which the rich and the powerful are honoured.

We have to actually choose a name, Kane murmured above her head. We can't keep calling him 'baby.' When he's fifteen he might resent it.

And what kind of name for a town is Upper Black Eddy? Pennsylvania scares me sometimes.

That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]

She took the fork. "Thank you," she said, solemn. "All good weapons deserve a name," said Tornac. "Especially magical ones. What would you call this one?" Essie thought for a second and then said, "Mister Stabby!

Rasala had named the two new prototypes Tartis and Gallifrey, after the home planet and time machine of Dr. Who, the protagonist of a science fiction show on public TV.

stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus

Le pregunté cómo se llamaba el gato y contestó que los gatos no se llaman porque no son cristianos como los perros

La otra anciana se llamaba Sa', que significa «estrella», porque su madre miraba el cielo nocturno de otoño, concentrada en las lejanas estrellas, para distraerse de los dolores del parto.

He baptized his adopted child, and named him Quasimodo, either because he wished to mark in this way the day upon which the child was found, or because he wished to show by this name how imperfect and incomplete the poor little creature was. Indeed, Quasimodo, one eyed, hunchbacked, and knock kneed, was hardly more than half made.

That's nice! You have called me Eponine!

So this file contained two of three names—-ovna was the suffix for a daughter. Vera Petrovna meant Vera, Petyr's daughter.

I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.

I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.

Ils ont treize noms pour nommer le palmier, et le palmier n'est pas nommé.

He thought that there was plenty out there, and allowed that maybe some of it was even eternal, but he wasn't sure any of it needed a name and so many little houses built on its behalf in the countryside out of wood and stone.

Yet every so often people dare choose a culturally unpopular name for their offspring. They do so because they may have a different take on mythology's influence in human lives, or they are prepared to challenge the notion that a name makes a person. Sometimes it simply feels right, because no other name will do. For is it not true that all stories exist to be written anew?

My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - " "I am NOT naming our child Buford...

Tiberius Nero Blackthorn. I think his parents may have gone a little overboard. It's like naming someone Magnificent Bastard.

In my experience, folk find it nigh on impossible to call a thing what it is. It

What's in a name?" rumbled Iago. "People will call you whatever they want. New owner, new name. If it bothers you, you oughtn't come when you're called. They'll learn eventually. I rarely come trotting when someone hollers for me. That's all a name's for, in the end.