Quotes about name
names people bears
I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe. Toni Morrison
names black down-and
When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.
names meditation language
Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.
names strange wonderful
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion. Tom T. Hall
names trying firsts
The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation. Tom Stoppard
names prison shame
A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb; By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd, Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest. Tom Brown, Jr.
names want i-can
I certainly want a name that I can pronounce! Tom Brady
names expectations people
You don't come up expecting to be a fan favorite. When I was a rookie, I was just trying to make a name for myself, but people already knew who I was and already had expectations for me. Tim Lincecum
names telephones
Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory. Sam Ewing
names cassius brutus
The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre. Tacitus
names addresses hanging-on
I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address. Sylvia Plath
names matter body
Body is the name of a stream of matter continuously changing. Swami Vivekananda
names body human-body
Body is the name of a series of changes.
names race degradation
National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races.
names people strange
It's going to be really weird to know that people are going to actually know my name, that's going to be strange. Rupert Grint
names veins beloved
Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name. Rumi
names finding-yourself
Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?
names phrases known
She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.
names soul universe
You are the soul of the soul of the universe, and your name is Love.
names forever silence
In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?
names aristocracy talent
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue. Tom Robbins
names government chinese
Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government. Tom Lantos
names commit enjoyable
If I'm going to put my name to something and commit to something that's going to take up a lot of my time, it has to be something that I know is going to be enjoyable and worth my while. Otherwise, what's the point? Tom Ellis
names white numbers
The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves. Tom G. Palmer
names dames nervous
As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say. Tom Felton
names stuff buying
The irony about selling out is that they only call you a sell-out when your stuff finally sells - I've had products bearing my name since I was 14, but nobody was buying them then. Tony Hawk
names detroit hollywood
I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit Tony Goldwyn
names zanzibar morocco
You know how I came up with the name 'Road to the Super Bowl?' It's an homage to the old Bob Hope - Bing Crosby buddy movies - you know, like 'Road to Zanzibar' or 'Road to Morocco.' Can you tell? All I've done my whole life is go to movies. Steve Sabol
names giving people
When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name. Steve Guttenberg
names numbers giving
Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within. Thomas Merton
names evil people
There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good.'...one might point to the way in which racial hatreds and even persecution are admitted by people who consider themselves, and perhaps in some sense are, kind, tolerant, civilized and even humane.
names hands might
Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might. Thomas Carlyle
names doe poet
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.