Following is our list of the most famous surname quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational surname quotes. Hopefully, these surname quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your surname knowledge!
There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part. — Lily Collins
Make your last name mean something. Only a coward doesn't care about their bloodline. — Andrew Tate
My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way — Ali Shariati
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. — Voltaire
What is necessary is to rectify names. — Confucius
Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad. — Terry Pratchett
I have given you my soul; leave me my name! — John Proctor
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. — James Joyce
Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Ain't that a shame how they f-ck up ya name. — Lil Boosie
The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. — Muhammad Ali
In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios. — Snoop Dogg
My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time. — Richard Watson Gilder
And this is Nymphadora-" "Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder. "It's Tonks." "-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only," finished Lupin. "So would you if your fool of a mother had called you 'Nymphadora,' " muttered Tonks. — J. K. Rowling
A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one? — Kelley Armstrong
Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers. — Zoe Saldana
It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and saying you got your job only because your surname is McMahon. — Julian McMahon
There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname. — Milla Jovovich
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth. — William Butler Yeats
I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good. — Tamara Ecclestone
My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties have always needed...extentions. That's why I'm here with you. You're smiling again, or rather you're SMIRKING. Funny word, smirk. Rather like an extraterrestrial surname. Simon Smirk. How do you think that sounds? — Thomas Ligotti
After that, we had a short conversation about how your body can sometimes seem totally separate. She said her body can feel like a distant bureaucracy controlled by telegrams from her brain, and I said my body is sometimes like that of Mario Mario, being controlled with a Nintendo joypad. Mario's surname is Mario. — Joe Dunthorne
Try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis. — Muriel Spark
I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname. — Rachel Weisz
For in the night, unseen, a single warrior, In sombre harness mailed, Dreaded of man, and surnamed the Destroyer, The rampart wall has scaled. He passed into the chamber of the sleeper, The dark and silent room, And as he entered, darker grew, and deeper, The silence and the gloom. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate. — Antonio Villaraigosa
In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from. — Anne Enright
My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those. — Samantha Bond
People tend to try to find something to talk about Zuma. My surname is very nice and simple. Very simple, so they like pronouncing it all the time. So what's the problem? — Jacob Zuma
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love. — Socrates
When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name. — Jonathan Swift
One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish. — Nicholson Baker
There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’. — Christopher Hitchens
Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver. — Russell Brand
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