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Names Quotes by Toni Morrison
- When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.
- Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.
- All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never…
- What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name.…
- When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. 'Perhaps I made it up,' she…
- Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your…
- Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in…
More Names Quotes
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. — Julian Assange
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Margaret Atwood
- '1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. — Margaret Atwood
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the… — Paul Auster
- Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because… — Teresa of Avila
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects… — Gaston Bachelard
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the… — Nicholson Baker