Quotes About Naming

I baptize thee, Germain Alexander Claudel MacKenzie Fraser, in the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Amen.

I turned to leave and paused before the gap in the ruined wall. "One last thing, Your Majesty. I'd like a name I can put into my report, something shorter than typing out 'The Leader of the Southern Shapechanger Faction.' What should I call you?" "Lord." I rolled my eyes. He shrugged. "It's short.

I myself have accepted the term [neoconservative], perhaps, because, having been named Irving, I am relatively indifferent to baptismal caprice.

What's your name?' 'Names!' she sniffed, rolling her eyes. 'People always want names, don't they? They're mad about naming. I will let the moment name me.' she eyed Jack expectantly. 'You want me to name you?' he asked. 'People from the other side are very dull,' she sighed. 'Give yourself a name for me. I don't need naming for myself, do I?

When it comes to naming things, vanity and flattery are dull motivations best suited for deciding on a child's middle name. Much more interesting are the descriptive names that suggest a story or happening of interest.

You named a dog the size of Bigfoot Fluffy?

So we grow up in a sea of stories told in a way that fits what we want others to know about us. The stories told in most families are a kind of propaganda. The tragedy is that often these stories are simply a form of dis-information... But our families name us without knowing the consequences. So our life is a journey to discover our true name, though; sadly many of us never choose to begin that search.

naming an affect soothes limbic firing. Sometimes we need to "name it to tame it." We can use the left language centers to calm the excessively firing right emotional areas.

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

Jake was hurting, emotionally and physically, and he was exhausted. He stared at her in wonder. "You're going to name him after me?" "I don't see any other father in this house." Ignoring the pain throbbing in his hands, he drew her close, holding onto her tightly. It was the most precious gift she could have given him.

Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason that we see children now Have recourse to gestures because they cannot speak And point their fingers at things which appear before them.

Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen describes the approach of building an entire brand around a job to be done as 'purpose branding'. Purpose branding involves naming the product after the purpose it serves. In other words, as Clarissa Rayward, Director of Brisbane Family Law Centre, likes to say, it does what it says on the tin.

the fact that maybe men think if they just name everything, everything'll be okay, the fact that it's like dogs marking their territory

He wandered off, leaving me to wonder why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience—names they could never live up to—and black mothers called their daughters Mercy, Deliverance, Salvation—crosses they'd always have to bear.

Je suis devenu pompier parce que je voulais sauver des gens. Mais j'aurais dû être plus précis. J'aurais dû citer des noms.

Why in God's name would you call a priest in your school a penis? How could he possibly be a penis? A man can't be a penis; he can only be a man. This makes no sense to me at all.

And how do men call you?" "I have many names, but one nature. You may call me Mazda, or anything you please.

We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.

You have to have a name when you're young, I went through loads.

Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

The main thing I've done for my children is not to give them a stupid name, like actors do.

She is a famous artists' model who claims to have been christened Topaz - even if this is true there is no law to make a woman stick to a name like that.

She called me Tuck, which is what her mother used to call her father. All the male Browners were called Tuck. When the line began to pale, producing a series of aesthetes and incompetents, they gave the name to any man who married into the family, within reason.

The other day, I tried to remember what was the word for 'dragonfly' and couldn't.