61 Quotes About Naming

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.

When it comes to the rich, things are very rarely called by their true names

If this interpretation of nashamah by the rabbis is right ... then it is naming that creates soul.

When you were born, just a fresh babe, and I held you in my arms for the first time, I knew that we had to call you Bridie, after the blessed St. Brigid. I knew because the moment I set eyes on you, I saw you had holy fire in you, exactly like our own St. Brigid.

C'est important de donner un nom à un mort, autant qu'à un nouveau-né.

To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.

Nothing means anything but the proper names.

It is a beautiful impulse to contain the infinite in the finite, to rest order from the chaos, to construct a foothold so we may climb towards higher truth. It is also a limiting one, for in naming things we often come to mistake the names for the things themselves.