3,604 Quotes About Names

Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.

My puzzlement used to be 'why is the Lone Ranger' called 'lone' if he is always with Tonto. Now, I see that given the racial and metaphorical nature of the relationship, he is able to be understood as 'alone' precisely because of Tonto. Without him, he would be, I suppose, simply 'Ranger'.

If the laws are applied correctly, we may see some of the biggest names in astronomy go to jail.

Between the name and the thing lies an abyss as wide as the universe.

Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation and reverted to chaos, existing only to themselves in an unstructured world . . . surrounding the outposts of man.

To mistake the name for the thing, that is the danger of philosophy.

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.

I'm Jack, short for Jacqueline [...] This is Jill, short for Jillian, because our parents should never have been allowed to name their own children.

This change in naming is life-giving for women, certainly, but for all of humanity, too, shifting all those relationships... All throughout the Scriptures, we see this tradition in which a new name signals a new reality.