Quotes About My Name

#1. My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate. - Author: China Mieville

#2. I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree. - Author: Honore De Balzac

#3. And I didn't stop hating my name until many years later, when I realized that it wasn't a name to be ashamed of, but one to live up to. - Author: Reyna Grande

#4. Thanks, but my name is Gracias. - Author: Jarod Kintz

#5. Every woman I have known has actually deepened my spiritual awareness. Even if I have been a selfish man and treated them badly ... There were two women, I won't name them, who had a powerful religious effect on me. The ancient idea of a muse is there. - Author: John Tavener

#6. My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job. - Author: Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#7. My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since. - Author: Benjamin Netanyahu

#8. I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly. - Author: J. August Richards

#9. And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride. - Author: Vince Lombardi

#10. The grace of his walk could save me if I am crippled. His name on my lips could be my prayer against the madness of the world. - Author: Cameron Jace

#11. My parents aren't hippies. I'm North as in the North Pole. Unfortunately. My brother is Nicholas, and my sister is Noelle.
Wow. God. That's
About a hundred times worse than your name.
I was going to say devoted. Festively devoted. - Author: Stephanie Perkins

#12. My quote is that a guy name beastly theres a guy that has a wierd face and he loves her. so much and the women didn,t like him at all. then they get in love alot in the end.and then he gets his face normal. - Author: Alex Flinn

#13. I have read a lot about God and soul, but I have no experience of it; my name is Mind. - Author: Saurabh Sharma

#14. He might be a dragon, he might be someone whose name instilled fear in other people, but boy howdy, he sure turned my crank. - Author: Katie MacAlister

#15. These things excite me so,' she whispered. 'If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arrange it for you. Just mention my name. Or present a green card. - Author: F Scott Fitzgerald

#16. I'm like, "Well, damn, that means that I have to carry a flag." I don't have the freedom to just do anything, because I have the political weight of having this last name and my heritage. It's not like I've transcended, Will Smith-style. It takes a lot to pull that off, to cross over, and transcend. - Author: Michelle Rodriguez

#17. I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list. - Author: Gary Oldman

#18. Oh! Hello! I didn't see you there. My name is Darth Vader, and I'm the president of Evil Villains In favor of Leukemia, a.k.a. EVIL. Appearing in the lower left-hand corner: Evil Villains In favor of Leukemia - Author: Jesse Andrews

#19. It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring. - Author: Henry Rollins

#20. Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God. - Author: Charles Spurgeon

#21. [My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print. - Author: Arthur Koestler

#22. There's a place on my arm where I've written her name next to mine. - Author: Tom Waits

#23. What is your name?" I asked, voice hoarse.
"Alexandria," she repeated in a soft voice I'd never heard Alex use in real life.
"And who am I?"
"Aiden." She smiled, and I flinched. "You are my Master. - Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout

#24. Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name. - Author: John Lydon

#25. But let my death be memoried on this disc.
Wear it, sweet friend. Inscribe no date nor deed.
But let thy heart-beat kiss it night and day,
Until the name grow vague and wear away. - Author: Wilfred Owen

#26. For every person that says, 'I love your work, and my daughter thinks you're great, and we watch all your movies,' and is very kind, there are 10 more that are like, 'Who are you? What's your name? Are you on 'House of Cards'?' - Author: Anna Kendrick

#27. I forget my name," the cat said. "I had one, I know I did, but somewhere along the line I didn't need it anymore. So it's slipped my mind. - Author: Haruki Murakami

#28. I guarantee whenever I get married or have a baby, everyone is going to want to know my kid's name and I'm not going to say it for ages. That's just the way I want to do it. It'll come out but it won't have come from me. - Author: Kristen Stewart

#29. My name is Herbert Badgery. I am a hundred and thirty-nine years old and something of a celebrity. They come and look at me and wonder how I do it. There are weeks when I wonder the same, whole stretches of terrible time. It is hard to believe you can feel so bad and still not die. - Author: Peter Carey

#30. 'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong. - Author: Laura Mvula

#31. This tottered ensign of my ancestors
Which swept the desert shore of that dead sea
Whereof we got the name of Mortimer,
Will I advance upon these castle-walls.
Drums, strike alarum, raise them from their sport,
And sing aloud the knell of Gaveston! - Author: Christopher Marlowe

#32. My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone. - Author: Joe Paterno

#33. When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace. - Author: Red Cloud

#34. To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name. - Author: Thomas Merton

#35. I realize that for many New Yorkers, this is the first time you've heard my name, and you don't know much about me. Over these next two years you will get to know me, but more importantly, I will get to know you. - Author: Kirsten Gillibrand

#36. I'm a half-breed. You know, I'm Puerto Rican and Norwegian from descent, and I grew up, born and raised in New York City, and I stood out amongst my friends in my community. I was very blond-haired, white, and 'Lemonhead' was the name that they gave me. - Author: Lemon Andersen

#37. Lord # God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life. - Author: Mother Angelica

#38. And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it. - Author: Poppy Z. Brite

#39. I'm not even a household name in my own household - Author: Mike Middleton

#40. I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe. - Author: Toni Morrison

#41. Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration. - Author: Fabien Cousteau

#42. I would like to choose my own warrior name. If it is all right, I wish to be known as Crowfeather." Crowpaw spoke so quietly, his voice was almost lost in the pounding water. "I wish to keep alive the memory of . . . of the cat who did not return from the first journey. - Author: Erin Hunter

#43. The thing is, I don't take anything for granted anymore - my family, my music, you name it. - Author: Alex Lifeson

#44. must have looked forsaken standing there because she clucked her tongue against the roof of her mouth and said, "Poor Miss Sarah." I did so despise the attachment of Poor to my name. Binah had been muttering Poor Miss Sarah like an incantation since I was four. - Author: Sue Monk Kidd

#45. Unexpected Penis is my grunge band name, - Author: Katie MacAlister

#46. No! he wanted to cry out. No, Tania, please come back. What can I leave her with, what can I say, what one word can I leave with her, for her? What one word for my wife?
"Tatiasha," Alexander called after her. God, what was the curator's name ... ?
She glanced back.
"Remember Orbeli- - Author: Paullina Simons

#47. Whatever may be my feelings of personal gratitude to the Navy of the United States, I feel myself under still greater obligations to them for the honor they have done to the American name in every part of the globe. - Author: Marquis De Lafayette

#48. As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples. - Author: Wendy Davis

#49. Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame were all to be lost to me one after the other as the penalty, still I will not lie. - Author: Thomas Huxley

#50. I don't trust nobody that don't have my name tattooed on her ass, and then it's iffy. - Author: Lois Greiman

#51. I miss my dog."
...
"What was his name again?"
"Mouse."
"That was very unkind of you."
"Naming him mouse?"
"Isn't he a greyhound?"
"I could have named hum Turtle."
"Frederick!" ...
"It's better than Frederic," Annabel said, "Good heavens, that's my brother's name. - Author: Julia Quinn

#52. It's just cool to me that Bon Jovi knows my name! - Author: Josh Hopkins

#53. People have been kind enough to compare me to Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. I think it's amazing that they even put my name in the same sentence. - Author: Leona Lewis

#54. Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for 'That One.' And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president. - Author: Barack Obama

#55. Let my name perish,
the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music,
and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it. - Author: Sidney Lanier

#56. I know my name will always be linked with women. - Author: Les Dawson

#57. What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand. - Author: Orhan Pamuk

#58. I was under the impression that werewolf packs were not meant to be run by committee."
"Yeah," I said. "But I dont want to be like all those other werewolves, you know?"
"Says the werewolf named Kitty."
"It's too late to change my name now," I grumbled. - Author: Carrie Vaughn

#59. A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them? - Author: Katie Hopkins

#60. My name's Todd but I changed it in the first grade because there was another kid named Todd and I didn't understand that that was possible. - Author: T. J. Miller

#61. She sits down at the end of my bed again. "Who were you with? Do you have a boyfriend now or something?"
I can't help but laugh. If I have a boyfriend, his name is Death. And I'm pretty sure Roman is in love with him too. It's a love triangle gone wrong. - Author: Jasmine Warga

#62. I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter of abortion rights, of equal pay for equal work, of the rights of women prisoners, of all the time-honored feminist causes, and then some. - Author: Ayelet Waldman

#63. Writing for the love of writing. My muse makes no apologies under this pen name. ;) - Author: Amanda Wylde

#64. This story is going to be all about touchdowns and cheerleaders screaming my name. - Author: James Patterson

#65. I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title. - Author: Jason Bateman

#66. Honestly, I really don't like acting. I don't enjoy it. What I do like is going to a movie theatre and seeing my face on a poster. I like seeing my name on a poster. That is cool. - Author: Gabriel Iglesias

#67. Hi, my name is Jaime and I play bass, and I have dumb hair. - Author: Jaime Preciado

#68. In my tadpole stage I was delivered to Metron Ariston and transmogrified, and here am I. My name is Sporos, by the way, and I do not like your thinking names like mouse-creature and shrimp-thing at me. - Author: Madeleine L'Engle

#69. Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find myself constantly returning to: Edward P. Jones, Marilynne Robinson, Kazuo Ishiguro, V. S. Naipaul, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth. - Author: Dinaw Mengestu

#70. When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I'm busy cooking!' - Author: Betty Williams

#71. Captain Phasma. Remember me?" He moved his weapon slightly. "Here's my blaster, ya still wanna inspect it?" Phasma held on to her dignity. "Yes, I remember you. FN-2187." Finn shook his head curtly. "Not anymore. My name is Finn. A real name for a real person. And I'm in charge now. - Author: Alan Dean Foster

#72. Nix," I said, and her name was a poem. She tilted her face up to the dawn; my lips met hers. She pressed close to me, and then there was no past, no future - only now. No her, no me. Only us. - Author: Heidi Heilig

#73. Come, my heart, rejoice in the immunity which thy Redeemer has secured thee, and bless His name all the day, and every day. - Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#74. If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank. - Author: Woody Allen

#75. Oh, alright. You're no fun," he sighed. "My name is Razor."
"What kind of a name is that?"
"It's a nickname."
"What kind of a nickname is that?"
"Spike, Blade, Fang - all the good, deadly objects were already taken. It was the best I could do. - Author: Ada Adams

#76. And what do I know about humans? Only this: My name is Doloria Maria de la Cruz, and I'm not just the end of childhood. I'm the end of humanity. And if you come from the skies- I'm coming for you. - Author: Margaret Stohl

#77. I'm game to stay in bed if you are." "We can't." "Why not?" "Because we don't even know each other." "Hi, my name is Daryl, and I think you're fucking crazy, but hot." More than hot, she totally made his inner kitty wish it could purr. - Author: Eve Langlais

#78. No, no, you have driven me mad! When I think
that I had only one object in life: to give my name to an opera wench! - Author: Gaston Leroux

#79. Marina, as of the sea. You stick with Hector Ricardo. I'll take care of you;its in my name - Author: Pittacus Lore

#80. He's lighting up my life and I don't even know his name. He's already perfect. - Author: Poppet

#81. Obviously, I'm still building a name and reputation for myself. The stigmas that come with my past will remain there for quite some time, but I'm not afraid to challenge those things, and I never have been. - Author: Sasha Grey

#82. Our suffering is not worthy the name of suffering. When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to death, thinking what are they in
comparison of the sufferings of my blessed Savior Christ Jesus. - Author: Martin Luther

#83. Girlfriends are not wives. I draw the line at married women. Actually, women married to men with guns. If someone's girlfriend wants to make herself available, that's her business. Just don't give my name to your boyfriend. - Author: Jack Dancer

#84. When I moved to the United States [from Asia] in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I was allowed to change my name and my gender marker. Why is there that paradox? How do I get those two things to be the same? - Author: Geena Rocero

#85. Our faith can grow big enough to move a mountain. Jesus said, "These signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons ... they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover" (Mark 16:17-18). - Author: Stormie O'martian

#86. I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food. - Author: Jean Dujardin

#87. When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper. My name was in the middle in huge letters, Fellini's was at the bottom, very tiny. Now the name of Fellini has become very great, mine very little. - Author: Anita Ekberg

#88. Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom. - Author: J.K. Rowling

#89. My friends call me Wrath," says Raffe. "My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What's your name, soldier boy? - Author: Susan Ee

#90. When I was younger, I thought LisaRaye sounded so country, but I've come to really appreciate my family-given name. I was named after my father, David Ray McCoy, and I'm totally a daddy's girl. - Author: LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

#91. The relationship with WWE obviously has gotten better because after my name has been shoved down their throats from 2K [Games] for the past years, they finally passed off on it. They finally okayed it. - Author: Bill Goldberg

#92. Let there be an end to thought. Thus do I refute Descartes.' I sprawled, not a cogito or a sum to my name. - Author: Roger Zelazny

#93. Well, you know, my name is Ced and I kinda consider myself an entertainer. Hey that ain't bad yeah, Cedric the Entertainer. - Author: Cedric The Entertainer

#94. She kissed me on the cheek, and my mom sang Theresa's name from the open front door. She loves Theresa. I think she loves me more when I'm with her. - Author: Kenneth Logan

#95. Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me. MARK 9:37 - Author: Anne Graham Lotz

#96. Fire is calling my name. It is whispering words of encouragement, sweet things. It wants out, for me to fan the heat until it's a vortex that can't and won't be stopped. - Author: Alexandra Bracken

#97. Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name. - Author: Anjelica Huston

#98. Well, I couldn't spell my name until I was eight - my second name. I was so dyslexic. Max I could do. Irons, nope. - Author: Max Irons

#99. I didn't need to transform after all.
My name is Harriet Manners and I am a geek.
And maybe that's not so bad after all. - Author: Holly Smale

#100. My name is Ellen and I'm a vegetarian. Just to add another label to me: I am a lesbian, aquarian and vegetarian. I've said it ... - Author: Ellen DeGeneres