Born Boys Quote by Terry Brooks

It was a boy's name first.

— Leslie Nielsen

“Years before, when a boy, and romantic as most boys are, his lordship had sometimes regretted that the Emsworths, though an ancient clan, did…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Names are a great mystery. I've never known whether the name is molded by the child or the child changed to fit the name.…

— John Steinbeck

“Boyishness—by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness enough to…

— Thomas Hughes

“Two names emerge from a single origin and both are called mysterious.”

— Lao Tzu

“I came to view the world as a word puzzle and, with no special aptitude I can name, fixed on the whys and wherefores…

— Alexander Theroux

“Everyone in his family had always liked the fact that “Stanley Yelnats” was spelled the same frontward and backward. So they kept naming their…

— Louis Sachar

I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are…

— Kate Atkinson

My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl.

— Dylan Lauren

“All the dogs except eight had been named. I do not know who had been responsible for some of the names, which seemed to…

— Ernest Shackleton

I'm actually named Matthew William Kearney: my middle name is named after my grandfather.

— Mat Kearney

Our names were made for us in another century.

— Richard Brautigan