Named Quotes

817 Named quotes by 669 unique authors

I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pele sounded horrible. It was a… — Unknown Author
There is a lot to celebrate about that little Babe who was laid in a manger. Christians celebrate Christmas because they are thankful for the… — Monica Johnson
There was a pony named Barbapoppa that I received at the age of five, and he was very mischievous and maybe even devilish. Barbapoppa was… — Chantal Sutherland
It was the view of the people in the Department of State that the handling of Yemen affairs from Aden was too much of a… — Hermann Eilts
My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt. — Lionel Barber
Bernard Vonnegut, named for his paternal grandfather, was born August 29, 1914. He was a serious-looking little boy, even in informal photographs. — Charles J. Shields
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named… — Alice Morse Earle
I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition, I… — Cyrus Broacha
One of my all-time favorite country singers is a guy named Conway Twitty. — Blake Shelton
I changed high schools three times because my parents moved. I had one friend my freshman year named Miki Vukovich. Miki and I were the… — Tony Hawk
Of all the named structures within the abdomen and the chest, those associated with reproduction retained the mysteries of their willful behavior long after others… — Sherwin B. Nuland
My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for… — Horton Foote
I always wanted my kids to like me and think I was funny, so I made up this story about a kid named Jake and… — Rhea Perlman
I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from… — Israel Horovitz
In 1900, the typical American was a boy, not yet a teenager, named John. He lived with his parents and his sisters, Mary and Helen,… — Bill Dedman
San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug. — Tom Lehrer
The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town… — Unknown Author
Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907, fresh out of… — Stephen Kinzer
My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him. — Hannibal Buress
I was very young, and I remember this heated, passionate argument and trying to figure out some place called Vietnam, something called a Watergate, and… — Bill Huizenga
I have one chocolate Lab named Jasmine. I also had a rat named Sky. — Jason Dolley
I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me… — Guillermo Diaz
Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles. — Dan Jenkins
Enron Field in Houston, the Trans World Dome in St. Louis and PSINet Stadium in Baltimore are just three of the modern-day coliseums named for… — Alex Berenson
As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton. — Nancy Gibbs

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