Name Quotes

So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.

Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?

Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.

I almost didn't name Butt-Head 'Butt-Head.' I came real close to calling him something else.

Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together.

Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

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

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?' but no one knew my first and last name. The fans of the saga are amazing, and it's very flattering.

Till I was 13, I thought my name was "Shut Up."

Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

What you think of a name depends so much on the people you know by that name.

My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.