Name Quotes

“I don't know if he's realized that I can't refuse him when he says my name like that.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“True, but it never hurts to understand a place a little better. That’s why words are so important. They’re like a soul and a story all in one.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the City of Gold

“You’re a Bennett.”
“I don’t know that I appreciate the derision in your voice. It’s a nice name. One I’m proud of despite everything.”
“Joe is your son. Which makes him a Bennett.”
“Yes. That’s usually how it works.”
“Which means Kelly is a Bennett.”
“It’s good to know your talent for stating the obvious remains remarkably intact,” she said dryly.”
― T.J. Klune, Heartsong

“I am Nothing. He liked the name. It did not make him feel worthless; on the contrary, he began to think of himself as a blank slate upon which anything could be written. The words inscribed on his soul were up to him.”
― Poppy Z. Brite, Lost Souls

“Stop marrying men and taking their names as a matter of course. It isn't 'choice' when it's mostly going one way. Before you argue that 'it's just your father's name anyway', stop for a moment. It's your name. You were born with it, just as men were born with theirs. The difference is that our patriarchal society still treats women as if our names are on loan from one man until we find another to claim us and gift us with our new and true identity, while men get to own their names from the start and claim their destinies for themselves. I'm not saying you're wrong for doing it, I'm just saying think a bit more deeply about the fact that women are expected to do it all. And if you say it's because you wanted to have the same last name as your children, just ask yourself why women for the most part do all of the work of growing and birthing children only to turn around and give naming rights to men who did barely anything at all.”
― Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

“Because things accumulate around your name," said Berenice. "You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in various ways and do things, so that soon the name begins to have meaning. Things have accumulated around the name, if it is bad and you have a bad reputation, then you just can't jump out of your name and escape like that. And if it is good and you have a good reputation, then you should be content and satisfied.”
― Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding

“He knows your name. Not Libby, not Elizabeth Sinclair. Your true name, the one at the heart of you that has never been spoken. He knows you, and He calls you by it. You, in all your uniqueness. You, in all that makes you different from others. You, in all that you have in common with them. He knows you, and He calls you by name. He knows how you fit into this world.”
― Roseanna M. White, The Nature of a Lady

“I begin to wonder at the importance of a name at all. Is it not an idea of the other person, all we have in our mind? And what if the very concept begins to lose its meaning? When dust sets on, feelings turning colors into a shade of gray.
It only takes a few words, a little distance, a little confusion in our mind, and we are ready to press delete on each other.”
― Rolf van der Wind

“You say my name weird."

He wipes at the crumbs on the table. "How's that?"

"You linger over it, like you're about to take it's clothes off and fuck it."

"Weed is truth serum for you.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“A name, Ruth thought, could be either a ghost or a portent depending upon which side of time you were standing.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“If I die, all of you will rise back up... You will tell him that you fight in the name of the Queen and that you shall avenge her!”
― S.P. Jordans, The Frozen Abyss

“Avocado must be a magical fruit.
The name itself sounds like an invocation.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Every breath of mine has your name in it!”
― Avijeet Das

“You can know the name, but not understand or know the named.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I used to sing, in secret, so my father wouldn't know. I used to sing arias. Know what they are? Little tales, cries in the night. If you sing an aria, the world will know all about you. It will know your dreams and secrets. Your pains and your loves.

I'll name you Aria, after all the world's pains and all the world's loves. It will be as if you had never been abandoned. And when you open your mouth to speak, all the world will know you.”
― Nazanine Hozar, Aria

“The mark of a new name was to show that their past was remembered no more.”
― Martin Ellgar, God's Cry to the Church

“Es ist ein großer Fehler, zu denken, die Sprache der Kabbala benütze abstrakte Bezeichnungen. Ganz im Gegenteil - sie berührt nichts außer dem Konkreten. Und tatsächlich existieren in der Welt reale Dinge, die wir zwar nicht erkennen können, wie zum Beispiel Magnetismus, Elektrizität usw. Und nichtsdestotrotz wird nur ein Narr behaupten, diese Bezeichnungen seien abstrakt. Denn wir sind gut mit ihren Auswirkungen vertraut, und was interessiert es uns, dass es uns unbekannt ist, was ihr Wesen darstellt.
Schließlich geben wir jeder Erscheinung eine konkrete Bezeichnung, entsprechend den Handlungen, die sie bewirkt. Und selbst ein Kleinkind, das gerade zu sprechen beginnt, kann etwas beim Namen nennen, sobald es dessen Wirkungen wahrgenommen hat. Und das ist unser Gesetz: „Alles was nicht erkannt wurde, können wir nicht beim Namen nennen“.”
― Yehuda Ashlag, Kabbala für Anfänger

“Babyhoney Harpercelery."
The honey, a percolating bubble full of flowers and citrus, bursts wide open when the sea pf celery- the only vegetable I know that comes pre-salted- washes in. An unexpectedly pleasurable combination of flavors that made me wobbly in the knees.”
― Monique Truong, Bitter in the Mouth

“A main street? Depends on its name.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“The fearful name is the Supreme LORD GOD.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Did I tell you I went to Chris Baker's restaurant? Seòin." She pronounces it "shown." "He told me it means 'feast' in Gaelic.”
― Brianne Moore, All Stirred Up

“I am not the actress, but that is my real name.”
― Jodi Foster, Forgotten Burial: A Restless Spirit s Plea for Justice

“You're always such a good girl. Always so kind. I should have named you Empathy."
"Emotions instead of countries? What a novel idea!”
― Sonali Dev, Incense and Sensibility

“Now that San Francisco's real estate market had exploded in value, this ramshackle old structure was probably one of the most desired addresses in the neighborhood. With its historic charm and detail, the Sunrose Building, as it was called, was undoubtedly candy corn for real estate developers. The name of the building apparently came from a detail at the roofline---a winking sun. The bookstore's sign and logo incorporated the image. The shop's signature bookmark, printed on the old letterpress and given out with every purchase, bore the image with the slogan An Eye For Good Books.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“I expect the name ‘Steven Magee’ will become associated with the reform of the corrupt aspects of professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“The best way to fight this is to recognize it, name it, and refuse to go along with it.”
― G. Richard Shell, Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People

“Naming your child Wiseman does not guarantee that he will someday be a wise man … or even just a man.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sometimes it is, unbeknown to us, the name or the nickname, not the person or the thing, that is unknown to us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The sky is scythe into rain. Another name for the flesh.”
― Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Ghost Tracks

“If there is someone who has saved your life, remember his name as long as you live, even if you forget your own name!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan