Names Quote by Alice Walker

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

— Neil Gaiman

The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I…

— Matthew McConaughey

My grandparents and my aunts tell me that I need to make a name for myself like my mother. Their thoughts really motivate me.

— Prateik Babbar

I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I…

— Ann Romney

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

— James Joyce

We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we…

— Milan Kundera

Sometimes, the only way to discover who we are, is by figuring out who we are not.

— Nina Dobrev

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

— Robert Fripp

“We're all born nameless, aren't we? And the name we end up with has only peripherally to do with our family tree.”

— Emma Bull

And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.

— Paulo Coelho

Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.

— Lisa Unger

The way you see yourself is important, you see. It's as if you carve yourself out of your own interpretation. And so I became…

— Philip Ridley