Quotes
Quotes about Name
He left a Corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.
I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.
On, Amos Cottle!--Phoebus! what a name!
Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name.
Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air? Choose thou, whatever suits the line: Call me Sappho, call me Chloris, Call me Lalage, or Doris, Only, only, call me thine.
Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
Above any Greek or Roman name.
The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.
"Whose name was writ in water!" What large laughter Among the immortals when that word was brought! Then when his fiery spirit rose flaming after, High toward the topmost heaven of heavens up-caught! "All hail! our younger brother!" Shakespeare said, And Dante nodded his imperial head.
My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat.
Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.
The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, - what are they?
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die
