Name Quotes

Make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I used to follow a practice - somewhat contrived, I admit - to write the man's name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk, and say to myself: "That finishes the incident, and so far as I'm concerned, that fellow." The drawer became over the years a sort of private wastebasket for crumbled-up spite and discarded personalities.

My strength lies not in my name, but in the backing of 1.4 billion Indians and thousands of years of timeless culture and heritage.

The love of glory is like the bridge that Satan built across Chaos to pass from Hell to Paradise: glory links the past with the future across a bottomless abyss. Nothing to my son, except my name!

Africans of my generation-and even today-generally have both an English and an African name. Whites were either unable or unwilling to pronounce an African name, and considered it uncivilized to have one. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why she bestowed this particular name upon me I have no idea. Perhaps it had something to do with the great British sea captain Lord Nelson, but that would be only a guess.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

I thought up the name Queen early on. It couldn't have been King; it doesn't have the same ring or aura as Queen.

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and sounds splendid.

I want you to remember something for me. My name is Robbie Williams. I'm a singer, a songwriter, and a born entertainer.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

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

Pirate was going to be my middle name, but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad.

I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name.

Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames. I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it's something that's reserved for only the people who are closest to me. It's not because I don't like my given name; it's that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is - you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

When everyone recognizes Jehovah's name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it.

My name's not John Beatle, it's John Lennon.

Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.