Named After Quotes
79 quotes by 75 authors
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In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?!
— Jenson Button
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I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.
— Julie Andrews
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We had an episode where Bud asks his dad, I was named after the beer, right, Dad? And Ed ONeill, who played my dad, says,…
— David Faustino
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If an animal is named after what it eats, how interesting is it?
— Karl Pilkington
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut. He was a minister…
— Kangana Ranaut
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When I was younger, I thought LisaRaye sounded so country, but I've come to really appreciate my family-given name. I was named after my father,…
— LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
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I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.
— Sheryl Swoopes
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I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and…
— Brooklyn Decker
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America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to…
— John C. Baez
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Like a ship, a car should be named after a girl as it's sexy. My original car was called Kate. But then it got smashed…
— Sebastian Vettel
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Compared to my talents, Whoopi Goldberg is like one of those fake plastic Buddhas you get at dollar stores. I mean really, I fail to…
— Zach Braff
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The last player to score a hatrick in a cup final was Stan Mortenson. He even had a final named after him, the Matthews final
— Lawrie McMenemy
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America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed its…
— Mike Harding
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The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.
— Jimmy Breslin
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The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he…
— Jimmy Breslin
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So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain…
— George Carlin
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If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I want a sandwich named after me.
— Jon Stewart
Who Wrote These Named After Quotes
75 authors contributed a total of 79 Named After Quotes, led by these top contributors: