Quotes on names
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.
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Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes
Name is a fence and within it you are nameless.
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Samuli Paronen Quotes
Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.
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Mary Daly Quotes
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names..
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Proverb Quotes
People's fates are simplified by their names.
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Elias Canetti Quotes
Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
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William Hazlitt Quotes
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
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Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.
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Elias Canetti Quotes
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
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W.H. Auden Quotes
If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things.
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Confucius Quotes
Words have meaning and names have power.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
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Thomas C. Haliburton Quotes
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.
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Norton Juster Quotes
From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors.
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Proverb Quotes
Names are an important key to what a society values. Anthropologists recognize naming as 'one of the chief methods for imposing order on perception.'
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David S. Slawson Quotes
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names.
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Japanese Proverb Quotes
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes