Best Named After Sayings
79 Named After quotes by 71 unique authors
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Tribe cats are named after the first thing their mother sees, but I thing this would lead to a lot of kits being named 'wall…
— Erin Hunter
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Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.
— Laini Taylor
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If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!
— Iain Banks
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My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
— Darynda Jones
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You’re that lady,” Leo said. “The one who was named after Caribbean music.” Her eyes glinted murderously. “Caribbean music.” “Yeah. Reggae?” Leo shook his head.…
— Rick Riordan
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Ali Bell doesn't play hide-and-seek," Lucas said. "She plays hide-and-pray-I-don't-find-you." Mackenzie smiled. "When Ali Bell gives you the finger, she's telling you how many seconds…
— Gena Showalter
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Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, but I am sure all those youngsters…
— Linford Christie
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The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.
— George Blagden
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My favourite actors are all dead or dying. I just love Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn - I was named after her - and…
— Unknown Author
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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.
— Kangna Ranaut
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My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.
— Lupita Nyong'o
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I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just got…
— Madonna Ciccone
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I have a Guinness Book of World Records entry as the most-watched person on television; now I have a new entry as the only man…
— David Hasselhoff
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I was named after my two uncles. Roger Lee and Richard Allen. They simply changed the spelling to Leigh-Allyn to make it more feminine.
— Leigh-Allyn Baker
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If I had not played basketball and made the millions of dollars that I had made, I would never have been able to build a…
— Dikembe Mutombo
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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…
— Pele
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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
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Oysters, such as Dabobs, Quilcenes, Westcotts, and Willapas, to name just a few, are often named after the place they are harvested.
— Tom Douglas
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I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age was that he…
— Morris Gleitzman
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Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to…
— Jim Cooper
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The Sherry Theater, which I named after my mom, is a place I can go. I do want to give back to the community. There…
— Scott Haze
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It means a lot in that I always felt invisible, and I was louder in my own head than I was verbally, ... I was…
— George Lopez
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Named after my mother.
— Bonnie Raitt
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Nature shows suck ass, though cobras are pretty sweet. Pretty much any animal that has a gang named after it is pretty bad ass. I…
— Pete Wentz
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I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: -…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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