Name Quotes

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Experience, Mistakes, Give

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosby

End, Child, Carry

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

Patriotism, Hate, Violence

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Andre Breton

Life, Heart, Cannot

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Benjamin Franklin

Morning, Paper, Wake

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
Abraham Lincoln

Time, Truth, Remember

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare

Sweet, Rose, Call

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark Twain

Greatest, Accident, Inventors

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas Jefferson

Friendship, Why, Others

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy, Liberty, Mad

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.
Mitch Hedberg

Smart, Brain, Free

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.
Bob Marley

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
William Shakespeare

Wine, Spirit, Devil

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, Worth, Principle

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray

God, Mother, Children

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.
Marilyn Monroe

God, Remember, Made

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.
Erma Bombeck

Life, Old, Tell

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Charles Spurgeon

Good, Best, Character

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
John Lennon

Rock, Give, Another

America is another name for opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

America, Another

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe

Nature, Art, Through

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux

Peace, Wife, Father

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, History, Worth

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Powerful, Rich

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
Theodore Roosevelt

Children, Leave, Honorable

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
Albert Camus

Reality, Revolution, Give

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, History, Worth

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Theodore Roosevelt

Peace, Time, Great

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
Barack Obama

Love, Success, Faith

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore

Time, Morning, Child

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