Names Quotes
Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?
This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--
I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. That inspires an even more dug-in position.
My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe.
It just seems like atheists are not included in the basket of diversity in America, which is odd because we are the biggest minority. That is a bigger minority than any other minority you can name.
Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.
Sometimes it's best not to see your whole path laid out before you. Let life surprise you...There are more stars out there than just the ones with names. And they're all beautiful.
A good name is still to be preferred to great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.
Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support.
What does the name Virgin mean? We are a company that likes to take on the giants. In too many businesses, these giants have had things their own way. We are going to have fun competing with them.
I wanted to be a nobleman; I bought a name and a title... Oh, nothing is impossible with five million a year.
True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.
You can create a business, choose a name, but unless people know about it you're not going to sell any products.
Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.
I was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley.
She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus.
Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.
I got married about three years ago again to a wonderful German woman. Her name is Monika and she is beautiful. She is one of the biggest women Zappa fans I have ever met in my life.
If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.
There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
I am always cautious about naming the known, as we often forget to hold in regard those whose names will never be known to anyone outside of their close circle.
Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn't someone you want to talk to under any circumstances.
Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.
We are always in danger of rejecting the creational in name of the fall and of accepting the fallen in name of creation.
When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.
Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.
we know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.
He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.
But it's not the name I'd give to a conqueror of worlds... I would've gone with Thundro or Ragnor. I might just call him Thundro anyway.
Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.
The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Syndrome Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy.
I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period.
You're not able to do a lot of projects because you don't have a name. I wanted to get my movies to come over that hedge, so that I could do the movies that I wanted to do.
Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.
Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.
