Quotes About Namesake

My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport was one of only three very special airports named for men who died in a plane crash.

Owens may not be my real last name, but it's close as it gets, because it's my son's name, Owen. That's why I picked that name, and Kevin Owens is who I am. I can't stress that enough.

Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.

The Short Stories of Nikolai Gogol. "For Gogol Ganguli," it says on the front endpaper in his father's tranquil hand, in red ballpoint ink, the letters rising gradually, optimistically, on the diagonal toward the upper right-hand corner of the page. "The man who gave you his name, from the man who gave you your name" is written within quotation marks.

For Gogol Ganguli- The man who gave you his name, from the man who gave you your name.

I know throughout my childhood, there were many times I couldn't stand being a 'Jr.' I wouldn't want anybody else to go through that. If we'd had a boy, he wouldn't have been another Freddie Prinze.

When they launch snakes, you will have your namesake.

Working in 'The Namesake' was a personally enriching experience.

William D. Collier was not related to the advertising millionaire Barron Collier, who later became the largest landowner in the area and state, and namesake of Collier County, Florida.

My mother named me Adam, like you-know-who.

Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar.

I was named after Bob Dylan. Did I ever tell you that?

We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.

Their graves are their eternal homes—their dwellings for endless generations—even though their lands were their namesakes.

Many will come in My name, claiming, ëI am He,í and will deceive many.