Naming Names:RQ/List
From Naming Names
Words have meaning and names have power.
- — Anonymous
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.
- — Anonymous
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.
- — Stephen Vincent Benét
People's fates are simplified by their names.
- — Elias Canetti
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell, the name will carry.
- — Bill Cosby
Going to call him "William"? What kind of a name is that? Every Tom, Dick, and Harry is called William. Why not call him Bill?
- — Samuel Goldwyn
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
- — T. C. Haliburton
The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.
- — Jack Handey
Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names.
- — Japanese proverb
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
- — John Keats
Change it to what? Tiffany? It's been an advantage. It's unforgettable. I'm the only one.
- — Swoosie Kurtz
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
- — Marshall McLuhan
On the Day of Resurrection, you will be called by your names and and the names of your fathers, so keep you good names.
- —Muhammad (Sunan Abu Da'ud)
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
- — Thomas Paine
Name is a fence and within it you are nameless.
- — Samuli Paronen
The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.
- — Katherine Paterson
From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honours.
- — Proverb
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names...
- — Proverb
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
- — William Shakespeare (Act II, Scene 2, Romeo & Juliet)
Names are an important key to what a society values. Anthropologists recognize naming as 'one of the chief methods for imposing order on perception'.
- — David S. Slawson
I understand why one wants to know the names of what he loves .... Naming is a kind of possessing, of caressing, and fondling.
- — Jessamyn West
