Naming Quotes

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

~ Vera Nazarian

The only thing that comes close to defining me correctly is my love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The method that is required is not one of correlation but of liberation. Even the term “method” must be reinterpreted and in fact wrenched out of its usual semantic field, for the emerging creativity in women is by no means a merely cerebral process. In order to understand the implications of this process it is necessary to grasp the fundamental fact that women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our power to name ourselves, the world or God. The old naming was not the product of dialogue- a fact inadvertently admitted in the genesis story of Adam’s naming the animals and the women. Women are now realizing that the universal imposing of names by men has been false because partial. That is, inadequate words have been taken as adequate.

~ Mary Daly

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

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

I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric)

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Throughout the ancient world, naming was a sacred act. It was the word by which a child was called into his calling. It was the voice of destiny, summoning the child into his future with all its glorious promise.

~ Anne Hamilton

Elodin pointed down the street. What color is that boy's shirt?Blue.What do you mean by blue? Describe it.I struggled for a moment, failed. So blue is a name?It is a word. Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.My head was swimming by this point. I still don't understand.He laid a hand on my shoulder. Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating. He lifted his hands high above his head as if stretching for the sky. But there are other ways to understanding! he shouted, laughing like a child. He threw both arms to the cloudless arch of sky above us, still laughing. Look! he shouted tilting his head back. Blue! Blue! Blue!

~ Patrick Rothfuss

I have always been obsessed with naming things. If I could name them, I could tame them. They could be my friends.

~ Eve Ensler

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

~ Vera Nazarian

The action of a thing is the same as the naming of it - is, in fact, the real name. The trees creak and they are saying, 'trees creak through the long night.' The long night - what is it? Trees creaking. There wasn't anything that tied life's moments together, except life. And when it was gone?

~ Jesse Ball

The American Naming Authority, a collective of women studying the effects of names on behavior, decrees that a name should only have one user. The nearly 1 million American users of the name Mary, for example, do not constitute a unified army who might slaughter all users of the name Nancy, as was earlier supposed, but rather a saturation of the Mary Potential Quotient. Simply stated: Too many women with the same name produces widespread mediocrity and fatigue.

~ Ben Marcus

If you can't see past my name, you can't see me.

~ Dashanne Stokes

For the Hebrews, names provided a direct link with the Creator. They understood words as being the creative fire of God, the ‘black fire on white fire’ of His Law. Every utterance and every act of creation through which He revealed Himself was not only word made flesh but fire made f

~ Anne Hamilton

Being a humble person, she gave her pie shop a humble name—PIE.

~ Sarah Weeks

Instead of one-way interruption, Web marketing is about delivering useful content at just the precise moment that a buyer needs it.Search, a marketing method that didn't exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and inexpensive way for businesses to find leads.

~ David Honegger

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

~ Mary Daly