Names Quotes

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.

My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.

I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with.

I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.

I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.

And so with all things: names were vital and important.

The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA.

Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics.

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.

I'll name names, you know I won't hold back.

We all agree that manufacturers have a right to ensure that fake goods are not marketed in their names and that their own goods are not marketed under fake names.

Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

I like big, secure companies. I know what they do for a living. When I see their names on my monthly statement I know how they make their money.

What's really fun is to write under different names.