Quotes About Being Called Names

#1. Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, "Don't you worry about being called names?" retorted, "Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?

Alain De Botton

#2. I remember when I was a kid being called names, including the 'n' word. The first time that happened, it really bothered me. But most of the people I dealt with were all white. Most of my close friends were white.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#3. My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't have any friends.

Sherri Shepherd

#4. I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names.

Gloria Allred

#5. When people call me Sir Anthony I just think oh, that's a bit odd. But I'm not cynical about it. Um, I just feel more comfortable being called Tony or Mr. Hopkins, whatever name I'm called.

Anthony Hopkins

#6. Forgiveness is God's greatest gift because it meets our greatest need.

David Platt

#7. I like the physicality in doing the different physical motions, being a beast.

Sendhil Ramamurthy

#8. The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.

Criss Jami

#9. Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?

L.M. Montgomery

#10. I was called such names as a kid. Being the smallest boy in the class with a name like Caroll. I remember going home and saying to my mom, 'What were you thinking?'

Caroll Spinney

#11. The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover's aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover

Rexford Tugwell

#12. I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.

Francis Ford Coppola

#14. I gritted my teeth. I hated being called Dot. Only my great aunt Maureen could get away with that. And she was gone now so there was no one left to torment me. Except Honey.

Suzanne Trauth

#15. Much of depression's pain arises out of the recognition that what might make one feel better--human connection-- seems impossible in the midst of a paralyzing episode of depression. It is rather like dying from thirst while looking at a glass of water just beyond one's reach

David A. Karp

#16. If my name was Richard, I'd go by Richard or Rich ... not Dick. Hell I'd even settle for being called Chard.

Simone Elkeles

#17. My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

Charles Dickens

#18. It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago become accustomed to being called 'Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.

Alan Bradley

#19. The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

Laozi