Names Quotes

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I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever… — Mary Wortley Montagu
I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there. — Bob Hope
On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to… — Alice Walker
In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event… — Leo Tolstoy
True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter. — Richard Hamming
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! — Emma Goldman
The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. — Katherine Paterson
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. — William Wordsworth
The only love worthy of a name is unconditional. — John Powell
I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is… — Maya Angelou
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. — Samuel Johnson
Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the… — Victor Hugo
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich,… — Kathleen Blanco
The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have… — A. Whitney Brown
It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote their business. — Woody Allen
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself. — Jean Giraudoux
The name of the game is to talk to people. If you don't talk to people, you can't get started...You knock on twenty doors or… — Cesar Chavez
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have suffered not only… — Cesar Chavez
I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to. — Shaquille O'Neal
The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom. — Jose Marti
Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. Lately… — Barack Obama

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