3,604 Quotes About Names

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

When we have learnt to call storms, storms, and death, death, and birth, birth, when we have mastered the sailor's horn-book and Mr Piddington's law of cyclones, Ellis's anatomy and Lewer's midwifery, we have already made ourself half blind. We have become hypnotized by words and names. We think in words and names, not in ideas; the commonplace has triumphed, the true intellect is half crushed.

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

Take the back door," she said. "Claire, you and your strang friend-""Eve," they both said simultaneously, and Eve held out her fst for a bump. "Or, you could call me Eve the Great, Mistress of All She Surveys. Eve for short.

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.

I wonder why they named me Lunga since it means strong and my entire life I felt like I wasn’t strong as my name stood for. The other day I met this guy who told me that when he finally knew himself, he changed his name into something new and different. He told me that his original name represented something to his parents and not him, the name meant his parents’ story, not his. I too wanted to name myself something else, so I didn’t have to carry this responsibility of trying to be strong.

Let us forget that we are Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Presbyterians, or Free-thinkers, and remember only that we are men and women. After all, man and woman are the highest possible titles. All other names belittle us, and show that we have, to a certain extent, given up our individuality, and have consented to wear the collar of authority—that we are followers. Throwing away these names, let us examine these questions not as partisans, but as human beings with hopes and fears in common.

Which way to go Stellah?#Stellah, God called saying, Stellah, Stellah, Stellah, don't delete me, do not ever delete the work of my hands in you.

But no name has ever equaled the odd name of Triplebippleabbledabblekadupledop Smith...