Quotes About Names

Luego todo se convirtió en una sucesión de hechos concretos o de nombres proprios o de verbos, o de capítulos de un manual de anatomía deshojado como una flor, interrelacionados caóticamente entre sí.

Passed through fire and plunged through salt water and offered to the winds of the air; thus were names sealed to these chosen children.

Mosses are so little known by the general public that only a few have been given common names. Most are known solely by their scientific Latin names, a fact which discourages most people from attempting to identify them. But I like the scientific names, because they are as beautiful and intricate as the plants they name. Indulge yourself in the words, rhythmic and musical, rolling off your tongue: Dolicathecia striatella, Thuidium delicatulum, Barbula fallax.

Losing their names is a step in losing respect. Knowing their names is the first step in regaining our connection.

Delwyth, Bethan, and Eira be their names—I midwifed each one, same year.

By about the sixth week the smallness of the class, and whatever makeshift intimacy had sprung up there, became suddenly oppressive to me… suddenly I wanted the anonymity of a large class, where class members did not really have faces and names and problems. In six weeks with Susan, Lodeme, Betty, Valerie, Ellen, Frances, Pat, Marie, Bridget, and Barney, (…) brought to the stubborn limits of our knowability, we were now left with the jagged scrape of our differences.

She did not believe me. You do not worship the Sun. The sun gives life to all things. Without the sun this would be a dark, dead world. Perhaps, I added, the spirit we worship is the same, and only the names are different. The message from He who rules over us all may come to each people in a different way.

And this town was no different. Even the faces were the same. It was strange, he thought, how little difference there was in people. When one traveled, got around to many towns, one soon realized there were just so many types, and one found them in every town. Names were different, and expressions, but it was like many casts playing the same roles in a drama. The parts remained the same; only the names of the cast had changed.

I prefer to use the names their parents gave them -- the names that society will recognize them by when they return to become useful and hardworking members of society.

I'm Felix," said the skinny guy. "This is my man Moses.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

The name's Old Testament derivation did not surprise him. Campbell's first name was Exra, and there was an Absalom and a Solomon in the camp. But no Lukes or Matthews, which Buchanan had once noted, telling Pemberton that from his research the highlanders tended to live more by the Old Testament than the New.

but had forgotten all their names. A light burnt over the door. He went up the path, sea-pebbles crunching

Hey what's your name Candi. She's hesitant, like that beaten dog Jade mentioned. Candi Woodward. I'm Ayla Monroe. She laughs uneasily. I know. Out, Candi Cane, Jane orders.

He called himself Hristo Dimitarov, but that was a nom de guerre constructed from the names of two celebrated Bulgarian soccer players

Our names contain our fates; living as we do in a place where names have not acquired the meaninglessness of the West, and are still more than mere sounds, we are also the victims of our titles.

I think it would be extremely helpful if people focused on the ideas being discussed here, rather than on calling you names—which is an easy way to ignore your ideas.

We must confess these three strange names struck us; and it immediately occurred to us that they were but pseudonyms, under which d'Artagnan had disguised names perhaps illustrious, or else that the bearers of these borrowed names had themselves chosen them on the day in which, from caprice, discontent, or want of fortune, they had donned the simple Musketeer's uniform.

some trace in contemporary works of these extraordinary names which had so strongly awakened our curiosity.

nous n'eûmes plus de repos que nous n'eussions retrouvé, dans les ouvrages contemporains, une trace quelconque de ces noms extraordinaires qui avaient fort

Once I knew nothing about McKay and now I knew everything about him. This seemed as good as any reason for not walking out the door. There are so many ways to stop the knowing, and I tried them all. I tried silence, I tried heroin, I tried calling it love. And then I stopped trying to call my dumbness any one of ten thousand names.

I have only had one better name than Santa Claus. And it was not Ziggy. It was not Joe Ziggy, it was not Stanley or Livingstone, Brother, Son, Nephew, Friend, or Mr. Johnson. I have loved all those names. My best name is Daddy.

The thing about teen idol, Louisa is saying, is he morphs through time. The boys' faces and names change, but the emotional need they fulfill, well, that never changes.