Top 494 Named Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Named Quotes from famous people such as N’Golo Kante, Ezekiel Emanuel, Joely Fisher, Elvis Mitchell, Swae Lee, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

It's a huge honour to be named player of the year... an

It’s a huge honour to be named player of the year… and I want to thank everyone who voted for me.
N’Golo Kante
For months, my parents had been trying to prepare me for the arrival of a real sibling. They had given me a doll to play with and encouraged me to take care of her. And when the baby, a little boy they named Rahm, finally arrived, they encouraged me to help take care of him, too.
Ezekiel Emanuel
My mom says it’s an American version of the French name Jolie. My dad says I’m named after Al Jolson.
Joely Fisher
The film’s star, Eminem, doesn’t appear to have a great deal of range, but he can play himself. Even though the protagonist is named Jimmy Smith, the thoughtful ‘8 Mile’ is a raw version of the rapper’s own story.
Elvis Mitchell
I want to have a street named ‘Swae Lee.’ It doesn’t need to be a busy street.
Swae Lee
I was my parent’s first child, Joanna Catherine Going, named for my great-great grandmother Catherine, and my father’s maternal aunt Johanna Burke, and bearing the initials of my father’s father, John Christopher, who passed away just months before I was born.
Joanna Going
There’s this poet named Walter Benton, I really like his stuff. He always uses landscapes as a metaphor for the female body.
Borns
I’ve always felt a certain guilt to have them labeled as ‘Christina’s sisters’ or, ‘That’s Christina’s mom’ but them looking for the respect to be named Elizabeth and Danielle and Carmen.
Christina Milian
Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.
Adam Clarke
My father named me Kelli because ‘Kelli O’Hara’ just sounded so Irish.
Kelli O’Hara
My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I’m pronouncing that right. I’m named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.
Zach Galifianakis
When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.
Susanna Moore
You won’t believe it, but my grandfather named me. And the choices were between Sparkle, Sprinkle and Twinkle. So, thank God, they chose Twinkle.
Twinkle Khanna
I named my album ‘So Uncool’ because it defies the ordinary: you’re different from everyone else. It’s like, being uncool makes you cool because you’re different!
Keke Palmer
I am proud to be named a Defender of Children by First Focus, and I will continue to call on Congress to enact comprehensive policies that improve the well-being of our children.
Elizabeth Esty
I came into the advertising business in 1952, at the age of sixteen, as a delivery boy for a stuffy, old-line advertising agency named Ruthruff and Ryan, which could have served as the setting for the ‘Mad Men’ television series without moving a desk.
Jerry Della Femina
Two people who I think have the world’s most perfect skin are Cate Blanchett and Kate Bosworth. Maybe there’s something to being named Kate, I don’t know, but those two just seem to be effortless, yet completely, ethereally gorgeous.
Sophia Bush
One or two people have named their children after characters in my songs. That’s pretty intense.
John Darnielle
Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
Karl Rove
My 70 days of torture began in Camp India. The camps in Gitmo are named by letters. A is for Alpha, B for Beta, C for Charlie and so on. I is for India. It is a torture block.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition, I have named my son after Mikhail Gorbachev, someone whom I admire. He gave his people freedom.
Cyrus Broacha
Being named a great school at a great price means that we offer both high-quality academic programs and real affordability for families. We offer a personal touch that’s hard to match at a big school but without a big price tag.
David McFadden
It’s cool to be named a Shooting Star and, of course, a big honor. But as to what comes of that, I’m just going to see what comes my way.
Max Riemelt
They, that unnamed ‘they,’ they’ve knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I’ve long ago named them me.
Gregory Corso
I wanted to write about all my dogs that I know and love and are named after these desserts, and the experiences I’ve had with rescue and coming across these beautiful souls.
Joe Gatto
‘Death Of A Salesman,’ ‘Streetcar Named Desire,’ these are the things that, when I was growing up, made me want to be an artist.
Charles Bock
When I first came into the league, I was with Tim Dwight in San Diego, and a guy named Eric Parker, who really showed me the work ethic it takes to be an NFL receiver, and I’ve really tried to keep that with me.
Wes Welker
When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa, but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique.
Lizzo
There are things I read doing research, and there are certain books and writers I just love to read. There are books of Brian Morten’s that I love, for instance. There’s a wonderful book by an Australian writer named Helen Garner called ‘The Children’s Bach,’ and I just love the way she uses language in it.
Sue Miller
My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys.
Jenna Bush
Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that’s how it’ll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I’d named it after myself.
Louise Mensch
One of the gamebook series I created, 'Fabled Lands', i

One of the gamebook series I created, ‘Fabled Lands’, is also the name of my company, and the reason we named the company after it is that it was pretty revolutionary for its time.
Dave Morris
My dad’s a photographer. So I suppose he named me Ansel just in case I would take over the family business. I guess I failed him.
Ansel Elgort
I think the name of the show, ‘This American Life’ – we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don’t think about whether it’s an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
Ira Glass
There are no black women geniuses that are being named in canons. I could name a bunch, but it’s not part of common knowledge. It’s not how the world is taught to think about black women.
Kelela
My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Lionel Barber
When I was younger, I thought LisaRaye sounded so country, but I’ve come to really appreciate my family-given name. I was named after my father, David Ray McCoy, and I’m totally a daddy’s girl.
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
My parents named me after Uriah the Hittite, one of King David’s mighty men in the Old Testament of the Bible, who was known for his fearlessness. I’ve thought about it, and there may be a connection between my name and my personality.
Urijah Faber
I think whoever wins the World Cup deserves the right to be named the number one-one day team in the world.
Michael Clarke
I named my son after Randy Rhoads – Rhoads Morello.
Tom Morello
I’m named after Jane Austen’s Emma, and I’ve always been able to relate to her. She’s strong, confident but quite tactless.
Emma Donoghue
The euphemistically named CropLife America speaks for the pesticide industry.
Michael Pollan
My parents named me Arlette, and I changed it to Agnes when I was young. I didn’t like it because I don’t like names with ‘ette’ – you know, it looks like a little girl’s name.
Agnes Varda
There’s a lot of stuff I thought I’d do in the world, but I never thought I’d have a street named after me in my hometown. It’s a great feeling.
Darius Rucker
For me, one of my personal inspirations was designers in the mid-20th century named Charles and Ray Eames.
Joe Gebbia
I’m experimenting. That was part of the reason why I named the album ‘Stay Dangerous.’ It was about being proactive, not reactive.
YG
After about a month of living on my own, I began to feel it. I bought some plants. I remember I named one of them Penelope, and I would talk to her and water her every day. Apparently, I over-watered her, and she died. That’s when I knew I needed a roommate. So I got one.
Kristy Swanson
I created ‘Dinner: Impossible’ with a guy named Bryan O’Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we sold it.
Robert Irvine
I named my first album ‘The Sound of Revenge’ because I wanted to get revenge on everyone who doubted me. But when I finally got revenge, I didn’t enjoy it.
Chamillionaire
My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work in tandem with the Black Panther Party. That felt like a purposeful, beckoning call to engage in strategic resistance and to fight for the oppressed.
Angela Rye
I didn’t grow up thinking, ‘Oh, maybe someday I’m going to have a shoe named after me.’
Sheryl Swoopes
Once upon a time, a man named Fred Rogers decided that he wanted to live in heaven.
Tom Junod
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
Rene Daumal
We have named our kids Ryan and Krishank. Well, Ryan is also called as Sultan as he is a survivor and had a long struggle with life.
Kashmira Shah
Doing ‘Roadies’ was a big release for me. I play this character named Wes who’s the most pure, innocent form of who I was when I was eighteen searching for something.
Machine Gun Kelly
I wrote a song with a guy named Brian McKnight, who’s a huge R&B guy.
Brantley Gilbert