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The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.

Rickey Henderson

I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.

Stana Katic

I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.

J. August Richards

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.

Tina Yothers

I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.

Elizabeth Edwards

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

Bertrand Russell

I have one chocolate Lab named Jasmine. I also had a rat named Sky.

Jason Dolley

Rizvan, Age 15: Zakir was fortunate. He could cry.

My Name Is Khan

Rizwan Khan: [to Mandira] Can I get hug please? Please?

My Name Is Khan

There is nothing wrong with the name White Settlement, and the majority here is proud of the name.

Alan Price

What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? It could not be a wall; but there could be a thin thin line there all round everything. It was very big to think ...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

We wouldn't even have wars, if adults followed the rules they learned as children. A four-year old would be able to see how foolish grown men are behaving if you explained the war in child's terms. A boy named Germany started causing problems all ove...

In the Shadow of Blackbirds

Understand that by giving something a name, you own it. I find that by naming it, you give yourself a sense of purpose. Like wanting to become a doctor or lawyer or writer for instance, don’t hide in the shadows and wait for it to happen, because t...

Charles Mackriel

[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh grade we have a girl named Electricity, a guy na...

Jandy Nelson

A good name is better than precious ointment. Ecclesiastes 7-1

Biblical

A change of name or place may sometimes save a person.

Hebrew

A bad son gives his mother a bad name.

Ivorian

Vices creep into our hearts under the name of virtue.

Latin

A good name is more valuable than a velvet garment.

Moroccan

A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill.

Scottish

A good name is better than good habits.

Vietnamese