Naming Quotes

My parents wanted to name me Karim Hill. My aunt always liked the name Dule, from this actor Keir Dullea, who was in '2001: Space Odyssey.' That's how I got the name Karim Dule Hill. Growing up, I never liked the name Karim because people would ask me, 'Could you dunk like Kareem Abdul Jabbar?'

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

Names govern the world.

In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.

Words are a strange thing. You once saw an animal and decided it's a 'cat.' But cat is a sound. This cat has nothing to do with the animal. But I have decided it's a cat. So a cat it is.

When I was very young, it was all, 'Here's little Johnny,' and I got stuck with it, but I prefer John. There comes a time in a man's life when he shouldn't have a name ending in 'y'.

I'll name names, you know I won't hold back.

And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names.

We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

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.

Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.

All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.

Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me.

What is your name?" Why?" So I can mark your grave.

Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.

Let's find those people whose names do not cause controversy in our present and in our future. Let's name the monuments and streets for those people whose names do not provoke conflict.

I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.