Being Quote by Greg Boyle

A good name for a gang would be The Uneducated Idiot Tough Guys.

— Demetri Martin

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those…

— Snoop Dogg

Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

— Lois Lowry

I originally got my name after a gun because the way I rap; a gangster gave me the name in 1988.

— Tech N9ne

There was a time in the late '90s there where it was like every rapper had his rapper name and then his Italian Mafioso…

— Everlast

The Latinos were doing the five-name thing long before celebrities made it cool. We've been doing things like Antonio Ricardo Luis Raoul Hector Rivera…

— Freddie Prinze, Jr

We thought it would be pretty cool to officially declare ourselves a gang. Our gang name was called the Rude Boys. Of course, any…

— Thomas Middleditch

Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

— Robert Harris

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave…

— Russell M. Nelson

You named them: hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons. I called them: cousins, aunts, pops, moms. To you? Hoodlums, crackheads, gunmens. To me? Just neighbors, classmates,…

— Ka

A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann