Call me Quote by Jon Foreman

I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT MY PARENTS NAMED ME AFTER A TOY !!!!

— Yo-Yo Ma

My real name's Rakim - my parents named me after the god MC himself.

— ASAP Rocky

“Her parents could have named her Aria, or Harmonia, or Tessitura, or a hundred other clever names that would have alluded to her ancestry.…

— Adi Rule

Warsan means "good news" and Shire means "to gather in one place". My parents named me after my father's mother, my grandmother. Growing up,…

— Warsan Shire

I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the…

— Bil Keane

I was named after my paternal grandmother, my dadi. She died before I was born, which is why my parents named me Amy.

— Amyra Dastur

My parents named me Carys but when my elder sister, Sian, tried to say 'tiny' it came out as Tanni and the nickname stuck.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

Irene-" "Don't call me that." "You were the princess Irene the first time we met." "It means 'peace'," Attolia said. "What name could be…

— Megan Whalen Turner

If everyone's happy, then I'm the character where when I enter that means there's trouble. In a movie, when I enter, it's not a…

— Terry Crews

In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to…

— Jess Walter

I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.

— Gary Sinise

I'd like an omelet named after me.

— Rufus Sewell