#named

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#cannot #central #criterion #first #know

In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?! ↗

— Jenson Button

#avenue #cool #flyer #hometown #how

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late. ↗

— Hoagy Carmichael

#after #i #know #late #man

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God. ↗

— Silvia Cartwright

#awful #face #god #heroes #humanity

I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#brilliant #brooklyn #children #college #dark

I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#adopted #aunt #family #get #great

I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character. ↗

— Kelsey Grammer

#also #because #case #chance #character

The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#came #clark #country #first #had

In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander. ↗

— Harpo Marx

#brought #fall #home #named #our

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#begins #dying #eddie #end #man