Names
- Literary Arabic: الإسكندرية al-ʾIskandariyyah
- Egyptian Arabic: اسكندريه,
- Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟⲧⲉ Rakotə
- Greek: Αλεξάνδρεια Alexándreia
- Koine Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια ἡ κατ' Αἴγυπτον, "Alexandria in Egypt".
- Italian: Alessandria
- French: Alexandrie
- Turkish: İskenderiye
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Famous quotes containing the word names:
“Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa.... We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bought them; white people changed their names ... my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?”
—Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)
““Well then, it’s Granny speaking: ‘I dunnow!
Mebbe I’m wrong to take it as I do.
There ain’t no names quite like the old ones, though,
Nor never will be to my way of thinking.
One mustn’t bear too hard on the newcomers,
But there’s a dite too many of them for comfort....’””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, “just in case” in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)