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Name Quotes by Toni Morrison
- When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.
- All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never…
- What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name.…
- When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. 'Perhaps I made it up,' she…
- Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your…
- Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in…
- I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, You know, today I welded a…
More Name Quotes
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. — Julian Assange
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because… — Teresa of Avila
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects… — Gaston Bachelard
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the… — Nicholson Baker
- I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three… — Don Adams
- Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that… — Tyra Banks
- I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make… — Joey Lauren Adams
- Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought,… — Lynda Barry