Academic achievement Quote by Marko Kloos

“I’m Briana Fallon. Do you have a conventional first name, too, or did your parents anticipate your future academic achievements when they picked your…

— Marko Kloos

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and…

— Mitch Hedberg

My mom raised me on her own, so I decided to take her name 'cause she was my mom and my dad.

— Kaya Scodelario

When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.

— Thom Yorke

“In all honesty I really do like my name. Chase Alexander Devereaux. I think if there’s one thing that my mom did right, it…

— Jeff Erno

“I lost the name my mom had so carefully chosen and became a medical term.”

— Mariana Zapata

“So instead of naming me Harmony or Mary, they agreed to let me decide...And then on my seventh birthday, my present was that I…

— John Green

“I never knew my mother's name.”

— Zoë Marriott

“I prefer to use the names their parents gave them -- the names that society will recognize them by when they return to become…

— Louis Sachar

“I think if there’s one thing that my mom did right, it was picking out a unique, cool-sounding name for her kid.”

— Jeff Erno

“You don't just choose a name at random. A name is a name. A major responsibility.”

— Silvana de Mari

I started to understand how important it was for me to make my own name pretty early on after years of noticing people treating…

— Chris Eubank Jr