3,604 Quotes About Names

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

They've named the well after you.""How did they know my name?""They don't. They invented one.

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.

Names always matter," Maz said..."And yours is such a lonely one, when you think about it." Han had, plenty, and now that familiar sorrow crept back over his heart, an eclipse on never-ending repeat.

Tugs used to think that everyone's name was in the dictionary, and when she had realized it was only hers, both Tugs and Button, she felt suddenly fond and possessive of it, as if this book were put here for her guidance alone.

He took great pleasure in teasing her; he’d decided that Bee was no name for a person, and that it must just be the first letter of her real name. So every time he came in, he addressed her by a new and awful name that started with B.

You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

The names of places carry a charge of the people who named them.