Quotes About Surname

The Normans also gave to the English the concept of the inherited surname that came to define a unified family and its property.

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

I never dropped my surname.

Our children are Grammers and it's easier to keep the Grammer last name because of them.

In the traditional Russian and Nazi definition of Jewishness, where parentage and surname counts as much as religious and cultural affiliation, such a view is plausible. But what was Jewish except lineage about Bolsheviks like Zinoviev, Trotsky, Kamenev, or Sverdlov? Some were second- or even third-generation renegades; few even spoke Yiddish, let alone knew Hebrew.

Mi nombre artístico será Joaquín Sabina –dijo el cantante–. Es el apellido de mi madre.

It seems a lost opportunity that Capra didn't give George Bailey, or the Giannini-inspired idealistic bank president in his film American Madness, an Italian surname. The next time a great Italian-American filmmaker, one who established his career in San Francisco, would portray a member of the community, the character would be the fictional antihero Vito Corleone, whose name would penetrate the nation's collective memory far deeper than that of A. P. Giannini.

Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

I find my grandfather, buried with Great-Aunt Hannah and Uncle Jack. His surname is spelled 'MacCarthy', with an extra 'a'; like many names here, it's a translation from the Irish, so the 'a' is optional, and may appear and disappear with the generations.

These exchanges are reported without comment by the East Roman historian Theophylact Simocatta (charmingly, his surname means 'the one-eyed cat').