Top 252 Naming Quotes & Sayings

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

I don't know if the police of naming statements would agree with this.

I like naming characters.

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

I never had naming rights at Texas Stadium.

Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible.

We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.

[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on your front porch. Creating your name helps to build a sense of place within your neighborhood as well as pride in your accomplishments. By naming your farm you give it a life of its own. Be creative and come up with a name that inspires and makes people smile, like my friend Laura's "Wish We Had Acres," the Fairy Tale inspired "Jack's Bean Stalk" or my "Urban Farm.

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

When they were naming the animals, somebody got lazy: anteater? What's it doing? It's eating ants. DONE!

Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.

As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.

Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.

I don't believe in naming clients to get press. I hated it when I was a couture client. If the dresses don't sell themselves, there is something wrong.

Whenever I am asked who I admire most among the leaders I have met, I have no hesitation in naming Nelson Mandela.

Naming an emotion begins the process of regulating it and reflecting on it.

The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose.

The naming of cats is a difficult matter

Not naming names, but it shocks me, some of the people who get the breaks.

If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings.

Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or some president or slave owner's name. And, I almost wonder is this, like, is this part of a way of taking back the principle of naming your - I might be going too far into this - but naming your kids something of your choice?

There is power in naming racism for what it is, in shining a bright light on it, brighter than any torch or flashlight. A thing as simple as naming it allows us to root it out of the darkness and hushed conversation where it likes to breed like roaches. It makes us acknowledge it. Confront it.

Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked. I believe freedom begins with naming things. Humanity is preserved by it.

Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.

With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.

I collect words and phrases for naming the children of my brush.

I was thinking about naming my child Kanye.

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

The problem with naming a No. 2 is you really want to throw all your weight behind the guy who is going to be the leader.

Naming a bridge after Dr. King was the right thing to do.

Just naming Batistuta gives me goosebumps!

We thought there was also something that was humorous but at the same time powerful and deep about naming the album, 'Modern Vampires Of The City'.

The worlds of maths and science have a long history of naming important objects after people.

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

Half the battle with successful podcasts is in the naming; here, the big media owners have a lot to learn from the smaller operators.

Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

And once you say this is true, you start naming the beast that hurts you - so I started doing this. Other truths come out.

Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.

You can go on for days naming former elected officials who are now in the private sector getting paid lots of money for speeches.

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day, To-day we have naming of parts.

From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

Woody Allen movies are like Beatles songs. I can't name my favorite without you immediately naming a better one.

This isn't like naming your dog Spot.

Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

Don't underestimate the value of beginning a headline by naming the people you want to reach.

Why does naming a thing give it so much power?

My mother and I have always had a very close relationship, so I wanted to honor my mom by naming my daughter Julia as well.

The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind.

Naming can limit as well as empower.

The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves.