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Quotes About Names

Indeed, while ALEC keeps the names of its corporate members under tight wraps, its roster includes some of the biggest names in the corporate world.612
~ John W. Whitehead
Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.
~ John Wayne
Bandit Baxter Bear Bella Buddy Chewy and Chica Cocoa Cody Cooper Flash Gizmo Goldie Honey Jack Liberty Lucky Lucy Maggie and Max Mocha Molly Moose Muttley Noodle Oscar Patches Princess Pugsley Rascal Rocky Scout Shadow Snowball Sweetie Teddy Ziggy Zipper
~ Ellen Miles
My name is Mike. Instantly forgettable. Unlike Heather. What a breathless little name that is.
~ Ellen Wittlinger
studying God's names reveals His character to us more intimately. Among other names, for example, we know God as Creator, Judge, Savior and Sustainer. By reflecting on His names, we can gain insight into His nature and understand more about how He works in our lives.
~ Elmer L. Towns
And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
~ Barack Obama
By the way, I'm Charlie." Still bent over, she laughed. The phone slipped; she pushed it back up. "I'm Carly, and that is too much. When I was in high school, I dated a guy named Harley. When I was in college, I roomed with a girl named Marley. My sister's engaged to a guy named Farley. And now you're Charlie.
~ Barbara Delinsky
My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.
~ Evanna Lynch
THERE'S A KIND OF PEACEFULNESS IN THE NAMES OF ENGLISH COARSE FISH. ROACH, RUDD, DACE, BLEAK, BARBEL, BREAM, GUDGEON, PIKE, CHUB, CARP, TENCH. THEY'RE SOLID KIND OF NAMES. THE PEOPLE WHO MADE THEM UP HADN'T HEARD OF MACHINE-GUNS, THEY DIDN'T LIVE IN TERROR OF THE SACK OR SPENDING THEIR TIME EATING ASPIRINS, GOING TO THE PICTURES, AND WONDERING HOW TO KEEP OUT OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMP.
~ George Orwell
He is James Henry Alden, and I'm Henry James Alden.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
I personally cannot tell you how many times we rescuers put our names on animals to come to us as soon as they are eligible for release, only to find they have been senselessly killed by overzealous pound workers.
~ Elayne Boosler
Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy to recall which works bore both names, which just that of Marx, and which just Engels.
~ Martin Jacques
Getting to know God by His names is more than simply learning a new word or discovering a new title He goes by. Learning to know God by His names opens up the door to knowing His character more fully and experiencing His power more deeply.
~ Tony Evans
Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.
~ Ann Coulter
Wars, plagues, names upon tombs tell us only what happened. But history lies in the cracks between. In the inexplicable, invisible turns—when someone puts a hand down, pushes open one particular gate, and steps through. A man saying no instead of yes, two hands grasped on a dark street.
~ Sarah Blake
I can't memorize names and shake hands at the same time.
~ Scott Adams
Do you have a name?" asked Jean. "Lots. All of them lovely and none of them true," she replied.
~ Scott Lynch
In Sweden, it is illegal to name your baby Metallica, Superman, Veranda, Ikea or Elvis.
~ Scott Matthews
When it comes time to default, they're not going to remember any of the Republicans' names. They are going to remember in history books one name, and that's Obama.
~ Donald Trump
I can't memorize names and shake hands at the same time.
~ Scott Adams
What's your name? Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer. That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you? Yes
~ Mark Twain
Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on 'The Survival of the Fittest.' These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.
~ Mark Twain
Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.
~ Mark Twain
Now I know you'll tell me," said the lady. "The names of the first two disciples were—" "DAVID AND GOLIATH!" Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of the scene.
~ Mark Twain