Century Quote by Richard Brautigan Download Open image “Our names were made for us in another century.” — Richard Brautigan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Made Names
Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Our names... are in the hands of God, Who will preserve them so far as He has use of them, and further we shall… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have this idea that every time we discover that the names we're being called are somehow keeping us less than free, we need… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
Why would you want to just make up a middle name when the name should be coming from family and previous generations? I think… — Artem Chigvintsev Copy Share Image
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
We wanted a name that people would remember and get pissed off about. Nothing too deep, believe me. — Joe King Copy Share Image
“These new people are, like us, a modern invention. But unlike us, their new name has no real meaning divorced from the machinery of… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Do you really want to know where we come from?" she said. "In every century, in every country, they'll call us something different. They'll… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“The river loved to tell everybody (everybody being the sky, the wind, the few trees that grew around there, birds, deer and even the… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“I guess some people lived like Reader's Digest, but I hadn't met any and at that time it seemed doubtful that I ever would” — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“The Beautiful Poem" I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking about you. Pissing a few moments ago I looked down at my penis… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come. — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“Alas, Measured Perfectly" Saturday, August 25, 1888. 5:20 P.M. is the name of a photograph of two old women in a front yard, beside… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“Congratulations," I said. "It's so wonderful to write a book." "I walked all the way here," she said. "I started at midnight. I would… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“My Name “I guess you are kind of curious as to who I am, but I am one of those who do not have… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I sat there… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“I feel horrible. She doesn't love me and I wander around the house like a sewing machine that's just finished sewing a turd to… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
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