Nicknames Quotes

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
Thomas Paine

Title, Nickname, Titles

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.
Henry Louis Gates

God, Mom, Black

I don't have any nicknames.
Sally Ride

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.
Snoop Dogg

Real, Black, Kids

After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.
Jay London

After, Pride, Cause

I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
Vanessa Hudgens

Hate, Parents, Though

I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.
Shaquille O'Neal

Funny, Guy, Unorthodox

Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.
Ernie Harwell

Home, Baseball, Run

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.
Ellen Page

Love, Alone, Makes

I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.
Steve Sabol

Neat, Fascinated

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Ridiculous, Stick

I don't need any nicknames.
Victor Cruz

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.
Charles Eastman

Spirit, Religious, Meaning

All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames.
Taye Diggs

Past, Different, Friends

One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
Earl Monroe

Moves, Edison, Invented

All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.
Mamie Gummer

Family, Women, Husband

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