Quotes About Namesake

We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake

My name is Uhtred. I am the son of Uhtred, who was the son of Uhtred and his father was also called Uhtred.

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

Meeting a namesake is one of the most delicate and most brief surprises.

Tuppence was what my grandmother nicknamed my mother, so she gave it to me. My sister is called Angel, and my brother was going to be called Bubba or Sonny, until they let me and my sister name him Josh.

Fledgling designers need investment - but how much easier it is to put them in a dead man or woman's shoes, perhaps also backing the new designer's namesake line, but only as what the French call a 'danseuse,' a plaything.

They only name things after you when you're dead or really old.

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

My favorite song will always be 'Layla' by Derek and the Dominos, because my granddaughter was named after it.

I don't think I missed a single picture Billie Dove ever made. I was crazy for her. I tried to do my hair like her, and eventually, I borrowed her name.

She must have thought, sometimes, of her namesake, the votary branded with her god's most inventive and sadistic curse: to tell the truth, and never to be believed.

My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.

My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.

People named their kids after me!

I was named after my mother's maiden name.

My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'

My son was named after my father, whose name was Ranbir Raj Kapoor.

My mother named me for Marty Robbins.

I was named after a Muslim.

We're notorious for living up to our namesake. We're all about love. That's how we roll, even when it's to a fault.

A staunch abolitionist, Hamilton was one of the founding members of the New York Manumission Society. He was a trustee and namesake of Hamilton-Oneida Academy, an upstate New York school dedicated to educating Native-American boys.

Stole my first name from 'Evening in Paris' and the second from Elizabeth Arden.

Every single laundromat, grocery store, everything is called 'Lupita' in Mexico.