3,604 Quotes About Names

Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that theprudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, was Po-cha-na-quar-hip, which meant “erection that won’t go down.” ...

A name could be either a ghost or a portent depending on which side of time you were standing. The name Whaletown had become a mere specter of the past, a crepuscular Pacific shimmer, but the name Desolation Sound still hovered in the liminal space and felt to her both oracular and haunted.

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

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

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.

She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.

My middle name, Tree, comes from your basic tree, a thing of such beauty to my mother that she made it part of my name.

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.

I can’t believe,” he went on, “that you would besmirch my good name by implying that I’m an oath-breaker-”“I would have to know your name in order to besmirch it, would I not?”“You’re besmirching the idea of my good name.”“The idea of your name itself, or the idea that it’s a good name?”He blinked at her and mouthed the word Oh.