Naming Quotes

121 quotes by 114 authors

I was thinking about naming my child Kanye. — ASAP Rocky
Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad.Â That causes an emotional contraction.Â When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power… — Eckhart Tolle
Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming… — Richard V. Allen
Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a… — Richard V. Allen
From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power. — Casey Miller
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles. — Jim Capaldi
After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's… — Jay London
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [NoÃ«l] France was the last bookseller who provided… — Jules de Goncourt
Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly,… — Helen Keller
Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during… — Bruce Chatwin
You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how… — Humphrey Carpenter
Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear. — Bruce Lee
There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point.… — Faith Hill
Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against… — Lloyd Alexander
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve… — Paulo Freire
I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push… — May Sarton
Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or… — Eve Ensler
The cool part about naming your kid is you donâ€™t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available. — Bill Murray

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