3,604 Quotes About Names

From the day whe arrived at her husband's home, no one called her by her name.

[N]ames were what you wore forever, and she felt that she'd sent her daughters out in tacky rabbit fur coats when they should have been wrapped in mink.

Names are precious gifts, you know...

She was called Helen - a name, I fear, that may have gone to her head, for she frequently acted as though she had confused herself with Helen of Troy.

Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield"Why do we got names like we do?" I said."They come from old Indian names. We had our own way of naming before white people came over and spread all those dad names around in order to keep the power with the dads."I didn't understand this explanation about dads. And I didn't know if Bear Shield meant shields that bears used to protect themselves, or shields people used to protect themselves against bears, or were the shields themselves made out of bears?

...the man used names like passwords, all of them with a brief life span. But this time the thief wished that he had owned the name earlier in his life. He spent the first day imagining moments from his past when he could have been 'Astolphe,' when he might have behaved and participated with more ease and subtlety just for having the epaulette of such a name.

Well, one thing's for sure, they're very strange names, and that's putting it mildly.

Names, names, names. . . . The names are the first things to go.

She called him "William" for the first time when the child was a week old and he did not correct her, came to enjoy the way his name flowed out of her mouth and seemed to swirl about in the air like some meaningless song before his brain registered and told him that was his name.