Quotes About Surname

My roots go back to West Africa, but my last name is Kirby, which is not an African name.

My actual surname is Singh, and I come from a Punjabi Rajput family. Had I wanted to appease voters, then I would have gladly used my real surname.

I was allowed to take my adoptive father's surname. My birth certificate has a different name. My passport has both my adoptive and biological father's surnames.

My birth name is Ned Mencia.

Having the last name 'Bloomberg' sucks.

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

My surname Volkanovski comes from my father's side, so I have many Macedonian supporters and I really appreciate it.

Tom!" said Tom. "Tom!" exclaimed the doctor, as if he was about to have guessed it. He wrote down the next two letters. "So what do they call you? Thomas? Tommy? Big Tom? Little Tom? Tom Thumb?" "Tom," replied Tom wearily. Tom had already said his name was Tom. "Do you have a surname?

Do you have a surname?" "It begins with a C," said the boy. "Well, at least we have the first letter. It's like doing the crossword!" "Charper!" "Tom Charper!" said the man, scribbling it down on the form. "That's question one done. Just a hundred and ninety-one to go.

Wong is the most common surname in the world . . . " " . . . John is the most common first name in the world." "That's right," I said. "And yet there's not a single person named John Wong. I looked it up." "You know, I work with a John Wong.

I hadn't known up to that moment that I had a surname that was recognizably Jewish, or that people named Marx would be unwelcome somewhere in the United States because of it.

There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me.

but Mackey and Kell had asked Stevie straight out if any of his male relatives had the last name Jefferson, and he couldn't think of one.

We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.

Your success can't be determined by your surname but only by your work.

While talking to Wardha, I realized that Disney is actually the surname of the man behind the studio, but one only identifies it with animation. Now I have a new dream. If I can achieve the same level of legend with the Nadiadwala name, that would be awesome.

I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

because an American can have a double-barreled last name but there is little practice for a triple-barreled one.

A Tagore surname signifies an association with aesthetics and all the best things of life. It's enriching both personally and professionally.

My last name is difficult to pronounce. It's Toussant.

I thought I was half white or something because I only know white people as Ferguson as their last name.

My surname certainly suggests a man whose destiny has always been injury.

I could take Lennie's surname, now that he was going to be my stepfather. I thought about that. And yelped. 'What's the matter, Yuk?' Alison called from the next shower cubicle. 'Grubb!' I howled. 'Lennie's last name is Grubb!

She had lived on in the Crimea by the grace of God, as she supposed, but partly no doubt also because of the Spanish surname bequeathed by her late husband, a jolly Jewish dentist with vices which were minor but not insignificant, and virtues which were great but meticulously concealed.