“ Caleb and Aaron—now you are people and you have joined the fraternity and you have the right to be damned. John Steinbeck
“ Names aren't loners, they're connected, even in real life. You name your kids for someone dead or what you hope they will become or what you wish you were and your parents did the same to you and that… Catherynne M. Valente
“ I would like to outsmart the role that is destined for me. But I can't. I have failed to destroy my category. Ben Marcus
“ Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to… Maya Angelou
“ But hereto is replied that the poets give names to men they write of, which argueth a conceit of an actual truth, and so, not being true, proveth a falsehood. And doth the lawyer lie then, when, under… Philip Sidney
“ My grandmother, a dim, stern figure, named her children Lily and Violet, which I guess from seeing a picture of my mother's paved, ugly backyard, was the nearest she came to a garden. Emma Joy Crone
“ Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous ... Suzanne Collins
“ Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason. Rick Riordan
“ Achievements take leaders' name everywhere. Character keeps those names wherever they reach. A leader with no trust soon fades no matter how far he goes. Israelmore Ayivor
“ When a man modifies or adorns a woman's name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is attempting at once to alter and deny her, to dilute the privacy of the category she has inherited and… Ben Marcus
“ What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now.You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank.Okay, now, what are the… Jessica Valenti
“ People often lose their names. Names fall into holes or get eaten by wild animals. Sometimes they’re carried away by the wind. Eliza Granville
“ It was no accident that one of the first things God asked of Adam was for him to name the animals he saw around him. Why do you suppose God asked man to do that? Because once you have a name, you have… John Kramer
“ Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards. Galileo Galilei
“ So what's your team called?" asked Kate, twisting her legs into a pretzel-like configuration, "We're called the Winmates because we're inmates who win." Kate looked back and forth at Reynie and Consta… Trenton Lee Stewart
“ Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud. Joe Abercrombie
“ I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain. Kate Morton
“ We are born, we get names, we get educated, we get values, we get job and money. But all this is not life, life is love found in friendship, friendship found in love and in love, sacrifice.” Vijay Shaikh Ashraf
