Christened Quotes

#1. They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often.

C.S. Lewis

#2. My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names ... but my Dad always called me Mick.

Mickey Spillane

#3. So then, his armour being furbished, his morion turned into a helmet, his hack christened, and he himself confirmed, he came to the conclusion that nothing more was needed now but to look out for a lady to be in love with; for a knight-errant without love was like a tree soul.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#4. How I wish the mass media had christened me Joe instead of Joey. I hate Joey, not going to lie. Nobody I respect calls me it ...

Joey Barton

#5. JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?
ORLANDO: Yes, just.
JAQUES: I do not like her name.
ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.

William Shakespeare

#6. Saint Bo, a man christened with the miraculous ability to gentle horses, nervous women, and one year olds.

Becky Wade

#7. I do not like your name, sir," she answered.
"There was no thought of pleasing you when I was christened." he quoted lazily.

Georgette Heyer

#8. You'd think the FBI could've come up with something a little better than Clover when they christened me last year.
Clovers are cute.
I take umbrage at being cute. I'm a god-damned criminal mastermind. Criminal masterminds are not cute.
Except Loki.
Shit, Loki is cute as hell.

Julie Johnson

#9. I would like to have Brooklyn christened but I'm not sure which religion yet.

David Beckham

#10. My dear sister, I can reassure you. Firstly, the beastly baby is Italian. Secondly, it was promptly christened at Santa Deodata's, and a powerful combination of saints watch over -

E. M. Forster

#11. She is a famous artists' model who claims to have been christened Topaz - even if this is true there is no law to make a woman stick to a name like that.

Dodie Smith

#12. David christened it: "This is the house of Yahzeh ha-Elohim [1 ahveh of the Gods], and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel" (xxii, 1)

Joseph Wheless

#13. One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

Salvador Dali

#14. nurse woke me at 4:30 a.m. on November 1, 1962, to announce the messiah had been wrapped in swaddling and was christened Anthony Kiedis.

Blackie Dammett

#15. They were usually christened with feminine names, perhaps in recognition of the fact that their personalities were sometimes slightly unpredictable.

Anonymous

#16. It was possible, as far as they knew, that the western shore, which in fifty years' time would be christened New Jersey, was in fact the backdoor of China, that India, with its steamy profusion of gods and curries, lay just beyond those bluffs.

Russell Shorto

#17. By now the crusaders had christened the most powerful French catapult 'Mal Voisine', or 'Bad Neighbour', while nicknaming the Muslim stone-thrower that targeted it for conter-bombardment 'Mal Cousine', or 'Bad Relation'.

Thomas Asbridge

#18. I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

David Beckham

#19. All world was one, one windy nothing,
My world was christened in a stream of milk.

Dylan Thomas

#20. My mam told me not to tell many people about not being christened, as she said I would be a prime target for witches. To this day I don't know what she meant by that.

Karl Pilkington

#21. Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

George Eliot

#22. The newly christened UFO made their first live appearance at Fagin'sBlues Workshop in late 1969;

Neil Daniels

#23. When Grover Norquist launched his project to name anything and everything after Ronald Reagan, I humbly proposed that the deficit be re-christened 'the Reagan.'

Timothy Noah

#24. Only two guards remained - a pair the professor had christened Misery and Despair because of the way their faces 'drooped with the weight of their ignorance'.

A.E. Nasr

#25. Our town was christened Buyan, after the legend of a Slavic island that appeared, and disappeared, at will. That would later seem an eerie, and disconcerting, premonition.

A.B. Shepherd

#26. I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.

Deborah Norville

#27. He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.

Philip Zaleski

#28. When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.

Tom Hollander

#29. Love overcame reason...I had rather beg my bread with him than to be the greatest queen christened.

Carolyn Meyer

#30. The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

Harry Chapin

#31. We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.

David Beckham

#32. Y'cannae see can ye? Y'know who christened you lot the 'underclass'? The same sinister bastards that changed Windscale to Sellafield...they're nuthin' but a lot of jumped-up fascist bastards!

Ian Pattison

#33. New herrings, new!' we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of idiotism.

Thomas Nashe

#34. He looked up at the round, stained glass window in front of him, a blurred kaleidoscope backlit in the morning sun. It glowed. The color of heaven. Of her hair.
He sat back and cracked open the dry, leather cover of a pew Bible, and a mixture of sweat and tears christened its pristine pages.

Red Tash

#35. They christened the child, whereat he wept and made a grimace, as though he foresaw that he was to be a titular councillor. In

Nikolai Gogol

#36. I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

Bear Grylls