Names Quotes

I remember when your name was just another name that rolled without thought off my tongue.Now, I can’t look at your name without an abundance of sentiment attached to each lettter.Your name, which I played with so carelessly, so easily, has somehow become sacred to my lips.A name I won’t throw around lightheartedly or repeat without deep thought.And if ever I speak of you, I use the English language to describe who you were to me. You are nameless, because those letters grouped together in that familiar form….. carries too much meaning for my capricious heart.

~ Coco J. Ginger

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

~ J.k. Rowling

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

~ Neil Gaiman

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you chicken man?

~ Rick Riordan

There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.

~ George Carlin

Could you just call me Pigeon?” he asked the teacher when she read his name.“Does your mother call you Pigeon?”“No.”“Then to me you are Paul.”...“Nathan Sutter,” the teacher read.“My mother never calls me Nathan.”“Is it Nate?”“She calls me Honeylips.

~ Brandon Mull

The menu is not the meal.

~ Alan W. Watts

The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it is whatever label you may put on it. The label is immaterial. Even the label 'Buddhism' which we give to the teachings of the Buddha is of little importance. The name one gives is inessential.... In the same way Truth needs no label: it is neither Buddhist, Christian, Hindu nor Moslem. It is not the monopoly of anybody. Sectarian labels are a hindrance to the independent understanding of Truth, and they produce harmful prejudices in men's minds.

~ Walpola Rahula

I am an i poet.

~ E.e. Cummings

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

~ Confucius

I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.My thought crosses the river I swim very slowlyBecause the suit men made it wear weighs it down.

~ Alberto Caeiro

Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name? to respond when called.Ever wonder why?

~ Vera Nazarian

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

~ Alan W. Watts

A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Do you know why hurricanes have names instead of numbers? To keep the killing personal. No one cares about a bunch of people killed by a number. '200 Dead as Number Three Slams Ashore' is not nearly as interesting a headline as 'Charlie kills 200.' Death is much more satisfying and entertaining if you personalize it.Me, I'm still waitin' for Hurricane Ed. Old Ed wouldn't hurt ya, would he? Sounds kinda friendly. 'Hell no, we ain't evacuatin'. Ed's comin'!

~ George Carlin

Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

~ William Shakespeare

Names are powerful things.

~ Nicola Yoon

We are born, we get names, we get educated, we get values, we get job and money. But all this is not life, life is love found in friendship, friendship found in love and in love, sacrifice.” Vijay

~ Shaikh Ashraf

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.

~ Alan W. Watts

I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

~ Kate Morton

Our names were made for us in another century.

~ Richard Brautigan

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

~ Joe Abercrombie

So what's your team called? asked Kate, twisting her legs into a pretzel-like configuration, We're called the Winmates because we're inmates who win. Kate looked back and forth at Reynie and Constance, searching their expression for signs of delight. You gave yourselves a name? asked Constance. Now it was Kate's turn to be baffled. You didn't? How can you have a team without a name?

~ Trenton Lee Stewart

If my name was Richard, I'd go by Richard or Rich...not Dick. Hell I'd even settle for being called Chard.

~ Simone Elkeles

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

~ Galileo Galilei

It was no accident that one of the first things God asked of Adam was for him to name the animals he saw around him. Why do you suppose God asked man to do that? Because once you have a name, you have the beginning of understanding, and once you have understanding, you lose fear. God didn’t want man to be fearful. He wanted man to be brave.

~ John Kramer

Before a Cat will condescendTo treat you as a trusted friend,Some little token of esteemIs needed, like a dish of cream;And you might now and then supplySome caviare, or Strassburg Pie,Some potted grouse, or salmon paste —He's sure to have his personal taste.(I know a Cat, who makes a habitOf eating nothing else but rabbit,And when he's finished, licks his pawsSo's not to waste the onion sauce.)A Cat's entitled to expectThese evidences of respect.And so in time you reach your aim,And finally call him by his name.

~ T.s. Eliot

A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.

~ Charles De Lint

People often lose their names. Names fall into holes or get eaten by wild animals. Sometimes they’re carried away by the wind.

~ Eliza Granville

We judge us by our names.

~ Raubin Chaudhary

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

~ Winston S. Churchill

The Great Stone at the center of the Somme memorial has this inscription: “Their name liveth for evermore.” The memorial contains 73,077 names, the names of young men who were robbed of life. Note that we often say that they gave their lives, but of course, this is not true; their lives were taken from them. It is not outrageous to consider the carving of their names and the false promise of “evermore” another act of violence.

~ Nel Noddings

That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.

~ Michael Ventura

Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.

~ Terry Pratchett

What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now.You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank.Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.”Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up.

~ Jessica Valenti

When a man modifies or adorns a woman's name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is attempting at once to alter and deny her, to dilute the privacy of the category she has inherited and to require that she respond as someone quite less than herself.

~ Ben Marcus

Benazir Bhutto doesn't cease to exist the moment she gets married. I am not giving myself away. I belong to myself and I always shall.

~ Benazir Bhutto

The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Achievements take leaders' name everywhere. Character keeps those names wherever they reach. A leader with no trust soon fades no matter how far he goes.

~ Israelmore Ayivor