Names Quotes

• Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

  John F. Kennedy

  Funny, Forgiveness, Witty

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• I lived on the north side of Detroit. Right down the street from me there was a young man by the name of Smokey Robinson. I was very proud to live down the street from him because he was our only celebrity in town. He was singing with the Miracles.

  Diana Ross

  Men, Miracle, Singing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession,
  and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock
  like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it
  and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint
  or a pile of rubble.

  Lucia Perillo

  Italian, Rocks, Glimpse

  Lucia Perillo (2012). “Inseminating the Elephant”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press

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• Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Stones, Sticks, Bones

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• Any time you can have your logo or your name on a shoe, growing up that's a dream come true.

  John Wall

  Dream, Growing Up, Shoes

  Source: blog.eastbay.com

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• The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

  Confucius

  Wisdom, Naming Things, Chinese Proverb

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Sometimes, Born

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". Vanity Fair, www.imdb.com. April 1991.

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• A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

  Solomon

  Character, Riches, Chosen

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• People's fates are simplified by their names.

  Elias Canetti

  Fate, People

  "William and Kate: whatever you do, don't call him Kevin" by Jason Goldman, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2013.

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• God has many names, though He is only one Being.

  Aristotle

  God

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• I'm not a tough guy or a good fighter at all. [Boxing] is just a great way to work out that's not boring. It's also good for your mental health. If you have an Irish or Scottish last name you should definitely do it.

  Gavin McInnes

  Boxing, Work Out, Guy

  Source: thoughtcatalog.com

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• Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Jewels, Soul

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 155

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• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• Once you label me you negate me.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspirational, Life, Criticism

  "Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling", Vol. 2 by American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, p. 33, 1976.

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• My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Sea, Buoyancy, May

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• There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Common Sense, Poetry

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  Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.14, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.

  Malcolm X

  Real, Taken, America

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• Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Humorous, People, Sticks

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.51

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• To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

  Erica Jong

  Firsts, Revolutionary, Poet

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Individuality, Recognition

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.195, Xist Publishing

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• A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Love, Inspirational, Kindness

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1868). “John Ploughman's Talk; or, plain advice for plain people”, p.162

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• In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ancient, Virtue, Share

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• In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Real, Rose

  Speech in Washington, D.C., March 26, 1966.

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• Proper names are poetry in the raw.
  Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

  W. H. Auden

  Nicknames

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