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Quotes About Names

Thanks a lot, Allie." I grimaced not for the first time at the realization that he couldn't remember my name, then I decided I was definitely over the guy. "You're welcome, Bart." "Brad." "Kate." "Huh?" I wanted to laugh. "I'm Kate.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
I'm Josh Wynter, by the way." "And do you become Josh Summer in June?" I asked.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,And all their botany is Latin names.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
~ Ramakrishna
When the mind that is subtle goes out through the brain and the sense-organs, the gross names and forms appear; when it stays in the Heart, the names and forms disappear.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Reality must be always real. It is not with forms and names. That which underlies all these is the reality. It underlies limitations, being itself limitless. It is not bound. It underlies unrealities, itself being real. Reality is that which is. It is as it is. It transcends speech. It is beyond the expressions 'existence', 'non-existence' etc.
~ Ramana Maharshi
I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.
~ Yvonne De Carlo
world until very recently, married women were addressed by their husbands' names, prefaced by Mrs. You stopped, for example, being Charlotte Brontë and became Mrs. Arthur Nicholls. Names erased a woman's genealogy and even her existence.
~ Rebecca Solnit
I always knew that my middle name was an anglicized version of a great-grandmother's name, but I dropped it in my teens, not liking its sound and feeling that a middle name was unnecessary, given how few people have my last name. Only now have I realized which great-grandmother that name belonged to, only writing this story do I know the name of that unknown woman and that it is also mine, or is now the blank space between my names.
~ Rebecca Solnit
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~ Richard Aldington
At the opposite end of the spectrum from pacifism, we have a pusillanimous reluctance to use religious names for warring factions. In Northern Ireland, Catholics and Protestants are euphemized to 'Nationalists' and 'Loyalists' respectively.
~ Richard Dawkins
The little boy leaned against his father's chest and slowly nodded. Yes, he said. I heard all of the names, but I don't remember the other two… just the man who hurt Gillian. That's the name I most want, Brodick said softly. Who is he, Alec? Alec, please, Gillian began. Tell me, Alec. Who is he? Baron, Alec whispered. His name is Baron.
~ Julie Garwood
Eines Tages«, sagte sie, »fange ich Träume ein wie Schmetterlinge.« »Und dann?«, fragte er. »Lege ich sie zwischen die Seiten dicker Bücher und presse sie zu Worten.« »Was, wenn jemand immer nur von dir träumt?« »Dann sind wir beide vielleicht schon Worte in einem Buch. Zwei Namen zwischen all den anderen.«
~ Kai Meyer
I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.
~ Kate Atkinson
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Never play cards with a man named Doc, and never eat at a place called Mom's.
~ John O'Hara
Hollywood is running out of money and in order to keep geetting a third financed, you have to rely on overseas funding, and in order to do that, you have to get recognizable names.
~ Romany Malco
I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; one, that I have lost all the names, the other, that I have spent all the money.
~ Samuel Johnson
If you don't care about money, Nina dear, call it by its other names.""Kruge? Scrub? Kaz's one true love?""Freedom, security, retribution.
~ Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
To me there is a name for each person. I think it's marvelous to have a name. A woman is not a woman. It's either Gena or my mother or some other person.
~ John Cassavetes