Quotes About Naming

cape which we discovered before this spit is called the Cape of the [Eleven Thousand] Virgins

we found by miracle a strait which we called the Cape of the Eleven Thousand Virgins.

the newly discovered land went by various names; not until 1511 did "Brazil" first appear on a map

Magellan named the inlet Bahía de los Patos, Duck Bay

Eventually, Magellan gave the Indians a name—Pathagoni, a neologism

There was a strange kind of magick bias, which good or bad names, as he called them, irresistibly impressed upon our characters and conduct…. How many Caesars and Pompeys, he would say, by mere inspiration of the names, have been rendered worthy of them?

There aren't any Shakers in Shaker Heights," he said. "They all died out. Didn't believe in sex. They just named the town after them.

This baby name May Ling. Please take this baby and give her a better life. That first night, when the baby had finally fallen asleep in their laps, Mr. and Mrs. McCullough spent two hours flipping through the name dictionary. It had not occurred to them, then or at any point until now, to regret the loss of her old name.

and you're welcome to whatever you put a name to." Thus entreated, the two gentlemen (Mr. Weevle especially) put names to so many things that in course of time they find it difficult to put a name to anything quite distinctly,

To name is to dominate, to categorize, to subjugate and, quite literally, to objectify

And there 's a nice youngster of excellent pith,— Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

Leila just mentally tagged the three of them with randomly chosen, slightly exotic names – Tim, John and Sarah.

Most of us, even in this digital age, know what a grandfather clock is – but do you know how they got their name? They were once known as long-case clocks, but in 1876 American songwriter Henry Clay Work wrote the song that would give birth to the name that we know them by today: "My Grandfather's Clock".

Clearly, naming the major figures in the tradition had become a tradition in itself.

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

Most people in Iceland are either referred to as the son or daughter of their father. For example, a woman with a father named John is Johnsdaughter, or in Icelandic Jonsdottir. A man with a father named John is Johnsson, or Jonsson in Icelandic.

One must always name a weapon. You cannot trust that which you cannot call by name.

Cars get girl names. Guns get guy names. What do knives get?

In Mexico, we usually go by three names—first name, father's surname, and mother's surname. We shorten that to first and last name in los Estados Unidos.

people find names for things they feel the need to talk about.

He sang one whole verse directly to her, then, in fidelity to the song, he sent his vision inward to where his purest music was always found, and he looked at no one at all as he sang to Eanna herself, a hymn to names and the naming of things.

If the truth about loving or hateful choices were revealed it would break open the earth's crust. Which is why we live in legalized and general delusion. Fiction takes the place of reality. This is why simply naming one of these turns of the unconscious that are part of our strange human adventure engenders such upsets (which are at once intimate, individual, and political); why consciously or unconsciously we constantly try to save ourselves from this naming.

Yes, I said. My name is seven-five-nine-nine-three-nine-ex-dash-one. Junior.