Quotes About Naming

Now, if I had an Indian name, it would be 'Stands in Confusion'.

America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa, but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique.

We thought we were going to have a girl, so we had 15 girls' names lined up and a little boy popped out. We had no idea, and we had hardly any boys' names.

Actually, I can see one advantage to the Western way of thinking, which is that if someone has a name, you know what to call them, don't you? It's only one small advantage, and there are millions of big disadvantages, including the biggest one of all, which is that names are really fascist and don't allow us to express ourselves as human beings, and turn us into one thing.

Why do people always have to be named after dead people? If they had to be named after anything at all, why can't it be things, which have more permanence, like the sky or the sea, or even ideas...?

La bestia aprovechó para morderle el antebrazo. El mordisco no le rasgó la piel, pero le ocasionó un desagradable moretón púrpura que le duró varios días, momento en el que decidió bautizarla. Le puso Bitch, como les decían en su lengua a las putas.

Rob dio al niño el nombre judío de Mirdin ben Jesse

We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice.

Sunt enorm?. -Într-un fel superb. Pun pariu c? abia aÅŸtepÅ£i. Hai s? ne aÅŸez?m puÅ£in. AÅ£i ales deja numele?

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

If I had a tumor, I'd name it Marla.

Hawaiians believe a baby's name should tell you what that person will grow up to be.

Why it was later named after a notorious inmate

Salem and Portland were founded by New Englanders, the latter named by a native of Portland, Maine, after winning a coin toss with a Bostonian.

Llamas a las cosas por otro nombre como si así combinaras lo que son. Pero eso no las convierte en verdad.

Nothing should be named lest by so doing we change it

In a world which contains the present moment, why discriminate? Nothing should be named lest by so doing we change it.

to say, Oh, yes, Frisk. I'll call him Frisk. She wanted even to say, Was

Nothing should be named lest by doing so we change it. Let it exist, this bank, this beauty, and I, for one instant, steeped in pleasure.

I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female poodles being given that name since 1956, but of no human beings.

I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.

And I have toyed with many pseudonyms for myself before I hit on a particularly apt one. There are in my notes "Otto Otto" and "Mesmer Mesmer" and "Lambert Lambert," but for some reason I think my choice expresses the nastiness best.