High places Quote by Kay Ryan

“I guess it could be worse. My name could be Tlaquepaque, or Irkutsk, or Pyongyang. Or, you know, Pittsburgh. Sometimes I flip through the…

— Tamara Summers

“People don't always need a name.”

— Edward Averett

“Names are not of nearly as much import as people like to suppose.”

— Erin Morgenstern

This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.

— Joseph Priestley

Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it…

— Hudson Stuck

“And it is true that we are warmed by being called by our names. We all know people who hardly ever do it, who…

— Ruth Rendell

“None of us have a real name, Leonidas, just names we like and names people give us.”

— Kendra L. Saunders

“I will not put a name to what has no name,”

— Shirley Jackson

“People often lose their names. Names fall into holes or get eaten by wild animals. Sometimes they’re carried away by the wind.”

— Eliza Granville

“Others with names like myths, names like puzzles, names we had never heard before: Virgilio, Balamugunthan, Faheem, Abdulrahman, Aziz, Baako, Dae-Hyun, Ousmane, Kimatsu. When…

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home…

— Ellen Meloy

“So Geographers in Afric-maps With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps; And o'er uninhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns”

— Jonathan Swift