Quotes About Names

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organisations, places and events are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

The rust-colored dog was named Pepper, I soon gathered, and as we walked we stopped at more places and soon had a brown female dog named Sally and a hairy, stocky male dog named Beevis, all on leashes in a most unnatural dog family.

I'd been outsmarted by a man who named his goose Doris and thought it was a duck.

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

The audacity of the Gurus in using Muslim and Hindu names for God is noteworthy. Partly a prudent move – because going to a Muslim village and preaching about Krishna using terms completely unfamiliar would have been unwise – it is also a mark of the inclusiveness which was intrinsic to Sikhism from its outset.

Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.

My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters' names are Jina and Jacey Jones.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

At times, God's history seems to operate on an entirely different plane than ours...Exodus identifies by name the two Hebrew midwives who helped save Moses' life, but it does not bother to record the name of the Pharaoh ruling Egypt (an omission that has baffled scholars ever since).

I believe there is a creator, a great creator of the world, but I do not know his name. I know the names that he is given by man. Why should I prefer one name to another? What I want to know is

Eddie, Beth, and Caroline, this is . . ." She paused, waiting for the boys to say their own names. "Josh," said Jake. "Jake," said Josh. "Peter," said Wally. "Wally," said Peter.

I'm an American, our names don't mean shit.

You're kidding, Shane said. Do you think I want to visit Crazy McTeeth in his lair of insanity? No, Claire said, but I'm pretty sure you won't like it if I go alone when I just kind of promised to be with you. So...? Right. I've been missing Nutty McFang anyway. Stop making up names for him. What about Count Crackula? Just stop.

Right. I've been missing Nutty McFang anyway." "Stop making up names for him." "What about Count Crackula?" "Just stop.

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

John F. Kennedy is reported to have said that we can forgive our enemies but we shouldn't forget their names.

How had they met? By chance, like everybody else. What were there names? What's it to you? Where were they coming from? From the nearest place. Where were they going? Does anyone really know where they're going?

Comment s'étaient-ils rencontrés ? Par hasard, comme tout le monde. Comment s'appelaient-ils ? Que vous importe ? D'où venaient-ils ? Du lieu le plus prochain. Où allaient-ils ? Est-ce que l'on sait où l'on va ?

All the names I've called you through the years—my chick, my pumpkin, precious dove, darling, sweetheart, dinky, smudge Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.

Sorcha," he whispered, and realized that he had called her so a moment before. Now, that was odd; no wonder she had been surprised. It was her name in the Gaelic, but he never called her by it. He liked the strangeness of her, the Englishness. She was his Claire, his Sassenach.

I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love. I

I hope I don't," she said. "But she said—Laoghaire—" She stumbled on the name. "L'heery," Ian corrected.

We are the restless living, our names are not haloed by nostalgia.

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning real names.