Quotes For Naming Day

#1. He was beautiful in a way that hurt me, but it was the sweetest pain I ever knew, better even than the scars I took on my naming day.

Ann Aguirre

#2. From the day whe arrived at her husband's home, no one called her by her name.

Lauretta Ngcobo

#3. There is nothing to lose in life. Be courageous!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.

Adrienne Rich

#5. Some day there will have to be some new rules established about name-calling. I don't mean the routine cursing that goes on between husband and wife, but the naming of defenseless, unsuspecting babies.

Groucho Marx

#6. In general, my advice is to seek out people and new ideas when you travel.

Arthur Frommer

#7. Jerks," I muttered. Then I brightened. "Oh, hey. Doughnuts.

Richelle Mead

#8. Someone asked me the other day, 'What's the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?' And they started naming filmmakers. I went 'Naw, it's Jesus actually.'

Tom Shadyac

#9. If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading.

Charlie Munger

#10. If you've had the time to think about it, then you have time to pursue it.

Bianca McCormick-Johnson

#11. Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. I regret that some on the extreme right have been so critical of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and have adamantly opposed the naming of a successor who shares her judicial philosophy and qualities. And their criticism actually reflects poorly upon them.

Patrick Leahy

#13. It's supposed to feel good to throw a brick at the right people. There is a long tradition of naming and ridiculing and shaming and calling the villains what they are. Usually it was the artistocracy of the day and satire was the only way to speak truth to power.

John Cusack

#14. My love of literature goes back to my childhood.

Jerry Hall

#15. I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

Marvin Hamlisch

#16. To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day, To-day we have naming of parts.

Henry Reed