#names

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation. ↗

— Barack Obama

#american #american people #call #different #different names

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#being #beneath #buried #common #dust

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#class #dickens #earlier #few #first

The Vietnamese and the Republicans are, with an intensity, trying to take this seat from which we have done so much for our community - to take this seat and give it to this Van Tran, who is very anti-immigrant and very anti-Hispanic. ↗

— Loretta Sanchez

#done #give #intensity #much #our

There are names I do not want mentioned in my home. ↗

— Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

#i #i do #mentioned #names #want

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#chimney #coming #down #history #i

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#because #both #called #catholic #churches

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#believe #called #i #i believe #i believe that

It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#anywhere #basic #descriptions #easy #get

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#art #avoided #change #expectations #fresh