61 Quotes About Naming

Avocado must be a magical fruit. The name itself sounds like an invocation.

It is the value invested in a name over time that makes the name(brand) and not just the name.

Why do people always have to be named after dead people? If they had to be named after anything at all, why can't it be things, which have more permanence, like the sky or the sea, or even ideas...?

That's just the first part. What others call you, you become. It's a terrible magic that everyone can do — so do it. Call yourself what you wish to become.

I never know the heron as it flies, at first. What is the slow, wide-winged figure in the sky? Then I see it, like a word in a foreign language, like seeing one's own name written in a strange alphabet, and recognizing it, I say it: the heron.

She had not been the sort to have cared about the naming of things that existed well without it…

They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother.

We're OConchobhairs and they're our friends. Dad always said that what our name means - friend of the wolves.

What's your name?''Names!' she sniffed, rolling her eyes. 'People always want names, don't they? They're mad about naming. I will let the moment name me.' she eyed Jack expectantly.'You want me to name you?' he asked.'People from the other side are very dull,' she sighed.'Give yourself a name for me. I don't need naming for myself, do I?