Names Quotes

Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. It's no coincidence that Jesus taught almost entirely by telling stories, simple stories dealing with the stuff of life familiar to the Jews of his day. Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos we see despite all the chaos.

~ Madeleine L'engle

I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That’s what people are always doing in art. They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist or something and then they put him in a drawer and don’t see him as a living individual painter any more.

~ John Fowles

Names have power.

~ Rick Riordan

Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason.

~ Rick Riordan

A named thing is a tamed thing.

~ Joanne Harris

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

~ Dean Koontz

What if my name was Daniel, Lucas, Noah. Lucas Harris, That doesn't sound right. I think I'll stick with Nate.

~ Nathan Harris

Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous ...

~ Suzanne Collins

New Rule: Don't name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means of touting your own personal hobbies. At least that's what I've always taught my kids, Panama Red and Jacuzzi.

~ Bill Maher

My grandmother, a dim, stern figure, named her children Lily and Violet, which I guess from seeing a picture of my mother's paved, ugly backyard, was the nearest she came to a garden.

~ Emma Joy Crone

But hereto is replied that the poets give names to men they write of, which argueth a conceit of an actual truth, and so, not being true, proveth a falsehood. And doth the lawyer lie then, when, under the names of John of the Stile, and John of the Nokes, he putteth his case? But that is easily answered: their naming of men is but to make their picture the more lively, and not to build any history. Painting men, they cannot leave men nameless. We see we cannot play at chess but that we must give names to our chess-men; and yet, me thinks, he were a very partial champion of truth that would say we lied for giving a piece of wood the reverend title of a bishop.

~ Philip Sidney

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.

~ Maya Angelou

I would like to outsmart the role that is destined for me. But I can't. I have failed to destroy my category.

~ Ben Marcus

Names aren't loners, they're connected, even in real life. You name your kids for someone dead or what you hope they will become or what you wish you were and your parents did the same to you and that big, glittering net of names tells the story of the whole world. Names are load-bearing struts. Names are destiny.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Caleb and Aaron—now you are people and you have joined the fraternity and you have the right to be damned.

~ John Steinbeck

Names are powerful and are prophecies of the future. The name you are called is a sign of what you are and what you would become.

~ Jude Idada

Names are powerful and so is destiny, but a person's will is more powerful than both put together.

~ Liesl Shurtliff

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of green?

~ Stan Brakhage

Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years

~ Fm-2030

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a powdery avalanche. Belched from the volcano's mouth, they spurt in to the sky, then fall again. In the quivering air, like gelatine, the sounds trace their bubble paths. Can you imagine that?

~ Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio

Many confuse things with their names. This is a mistake. A name is only a word and a word will never be the thing itself. And, yet, names – as words – have power, not inherently, but because we give it to them.

~ Roselynn Cannes

The way he said her name made my heart cramp. In all my years of word collecting, I've learned this to be a tried and true fact: I can very often tell how much a person loves another person by the way they say their name. I think that's one of the best feelings in the world, when you know your name is safe in another person's mouth. When you know they'll never shout it out like a cuss word, but say it or whisper it like a once-upon-a-time.

~ Natalie Lloyd

Many who have learnedfrom Hesiod the countless namesof gods and monstersnever understandthat night and day are one

~ Heraclitus

She gave me money to buy condoms, and instead I bought a book of baby names. That’s life. That’s love. That’s fiscally irresponsible.


~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo

If you don't know a name, you can't be hurt when they go. I have no friends anymore, all are lost.

~ Patricia Hamill

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

She squinted at his nametag. Her eyes weren't quite working. What's your name? Stig.Stick? she asked, half ready to believe it. He shook his head and pointed his long index finger at the name stitched on his uniform. S-T-I-G. Stig.Harriet's breath caught. I can't believe it. I've been looking for you.

~ Kimberly Karalius

Carlyle! Not just another nameless entity.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true

~ Vera Nazarian

An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an individual was a type of thing for which symbols were inadequate, and so names were invented . I am invented. I am not a round warm blue room. I am someone in that room; I am—

~ Samuel R. Delany

Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

What's in a name?

~ William Shakespeare

Babynology.com explores baby names of all origins, you can get plenty of baby names along with meaning and origin. You can even search the meanings of your baby names.

~ Baby Nology

He pulls the gun away from his head and sets it on the coffee table. He wonders who first called it a coffee table. He gets to his feet and walks into the hallway. He wonders who first called it a highway. He wonder who first named anything. How did someone look at a dog and decide what to call it? It’s all so random. Everything is so goddamn random.

~ Ryan David Jahn

Everybody calls me Marty. I never know what to call myself.

~ Marty Rubin

You can't know people, only their names.

~ Marty Rubin

A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string.

~ Chinua Achebe

Names do not write poems nor do they create work.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.

~ Ray Bradbury