Foreign Proper Names

Famous quotes containing the words foreign, proper and/or names:

“Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

“The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“At present our only true names are nicknames.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)