Names Quotes

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. (John F. Kennedy)
If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist. View quote
Enrico Fermi
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love. View quote
Margaret Atwood
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of Hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake. View quote
Franz von Papen
Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names. View quote
Charles Barkley
I keep six honest serving men (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. View quote
Jim Morrison
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. View quote
Salman Rushdie
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. View quote
Mel Brooks
A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves, lest while we are building ideal monuments of renown and bliss here, we neglect to have our names enrolled in the annals of Heaven. View quote
James Madison
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes. View quote
William Hazlitt
I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers - one, that I have lost all the names, - the other, that I have spent all the money. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth. View quote
George Washington Carver
Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal. View quote
Robert Silverberg
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Metaphysics is names about reality. Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty-thousand-page menu and no food. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. View quote
T. S. Eliot
There are... many... names for winds derived from localities or from the squalls which sweep from rivers or down mountains. (Vitruvius)
We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. View quote
Bill Vaughan
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
If you can not answer a man's argument, all it not lost you can still call him vile names. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
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