Quotes About Naming

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

When we have found a resemblance [FN 2.] among several objects, that often occur to us, we apply the same name to all of them, whatever differences we may observe in the degrees of their quantity and quality, and whatever other differences may appear among them. After we have acquired a custom of this kind, the hearing of that name revives the idea of one of these objects, and makes the imagination conceive it with all its particular circumstances and proportions.

I wish to name the fountain of the Liambai or Upper Zambesi, Palmerston Fountain, and adding that of Sir Bartle Frere to the fountain of Lufira, three names of men who have done more to abolish slavery and the slave-trade than any of their contemporaries.

The central Lualaba I would fain call the Lake River Webb; the western, the Lake River Young. The Lufira and Lualaba West form a Lake, the native name of which, "Chibungo," must give way to Lake Lincoln. I wish to name the fountain of the Liambai or Upper Zambesi, Palmerston Fountain, and adding that of Sir Bartle Frere to the fountain of Lufira, three names of men who have done more to abolish slavery and the slave-trade than any of their contemporaries.

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the world, or God.

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

I couldn't decide on a title for my first novel and my editor came up with Everything Good Will Come. After that, I thought I should name my own books.A Bit of Difference seems just right.

I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

We'll have a baby who stutters repeatedly We'll name him history

There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies.

When my daughter was born she had jaundice, she was small, round and yellow. we called her Melony.

I want to get a job naming kitchen appliances. That seems easy; refrigerator, toaster, blender. You just say what the thing does and add "er".

I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire.

Why are they called a-part-ments, when they're all stuck together?

Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors?

When they were naming the animals, somebody got lazy: anteater? What's it doing? It's eating ants. DONE!

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

Males categorize their worlds by counting, naming, and organizing the objects they confront. Women, in addition to personalizing their topics, talk in a more dynamic way, focusing on how their topics change. Discussions of change require more verbs.

Naming and labeling are habitual, but that habit can be broken. Start practicing "not naming" with small things. If you miss the plane, drop and break a cup, or slip and fall in the mud, can you refrain from naming the experience as bad or painful? Can you immediately accept the "isness" of that moment? Naming something as bad causes an emotional contraction within you. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is suddenly available to you. The

Um dia de chuva é tão belo como um dia de sol. ambos existem, cada um como é. Por isso não há vantagem em pôr nomes errados às cousas, nem mesmo em lhes pôr nomes alguns

she undresses in the paradise of her memory she is unaware of the fierce fate of her visions she fears not knowing how to name what does not exist

El legendario Emperador Amarillo nombró las cosas y las escribió del modo correcto. Una buena administración necesita diferenciar lo que es de lo que no es. El día que consigamos saber cuántos somos, podremos disfrutar de esa felicidad que sólo trae la certidumbre.

Cómo no nos va a costar tanto perdonar, si ni siquiera somos capaces de nombrar lo que nos duele?»