Names Quotes
6421 Names quotes by 3753 unique authors
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The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.
— Rickey Henderson
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I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.
— Hank Aaron
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The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines…
— Daniel Libeskind
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No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an…
— Nelson Mandela
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I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about…
— Elvis Costello
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THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his…
— Terry Brooks
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We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab…
— Moshe Dayan
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If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who…
— Ayn Rand
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The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common…
— Eric Hoffer
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Large scale collective bargaining . . . is merely a seductive name for bilateral monopoly, and means either adjudication of conflicts in terms of power,…
— Frank Knight
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Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only good…
— Thomas Szasz
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She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support of the Unity mission. I…
— Charles Portis
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His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford…
— Sinclair Lewis
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Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment…
— Susan Brownmiller
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Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers are a thing…
— Unknown Author
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Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live…
— Russell Lynes
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Carve your name on hearts, not on marble
— Charles Spurgeon
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My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
— Walter Scott
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God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed His name to go long offended.
— David Wilkerson
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It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Father I am waiting, I need to hear from You, to know that You're approving, of what I say and do, cause nothing really satisfies,…
— Jason Upton
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Jesus Your name is a shelter for the hurting, Your name is a refuge for the weak, only Your name can redeem the undeserving, Jesus…
— Lincoln Brewster
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