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The family name hasn't fostered my prospects - ever. -- Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name. -- Connie Chung
Rosecrans is a family name - it used to be a last name in our family. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere. -- Elizabeth Olsen
There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me. -- Natalie Dormer
My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was 'Caroselli' and it was changed in the mid '50s. I think they wanted to assimilate, which was pretty common, although I love the name 'Caroselli.' -- Steve Carell
Be true to who you are and the family name you bare. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name -- Connie Chung
I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name. -- Edward Kennedy
Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him. -- Carson Daly
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue. -- Tom Robbins
If I ever have a son, I would call him Frankie, and it's a family name - it's my dad and my dad's dad, so you know, it sticks. I won't forget it. -- Frank Lampard
I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Chauncey seethed at the outrageous insult. "And your father?" he demanded, extending the sword. He didn't yet know all his vassals, but he was learning. He would brand the family name of this boy to memory. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being. -- Etgar Keret
And of course I don't go anywhere without my pet goldfish, Anthrax. I always tell security I'm carrying Anthrax. Yeah, sure I get a lot of guff about it, but it's a family name; I'm not changing it. -- Stephen Colbert
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Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years. -- Anne Tyler
My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie. I realized why my father was so interested in him, because he was really an incredibly modernizing voice inside our Islamic culture. -- Salman Rushdie
Using the Africanist model, each generation should take the family name to a higher place. My father's folks were sharecroppers in South Carolina. He went to Harlem. They were still poor, but they moved up. If my parents didn't do this and offer me this background, I wouldn't be here. -- Ving Rhames
I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it. -- Steve Zahn
I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name. -- Shirley Jones
The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone. -- Eddie Van Halen
My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it - they know I love to perform. -- Blake Shelton
My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.' -- Uzo Aduba
The thing is, I don't take anything for granted anymore - my family, my music, you name it. -- Alex Lifeson
I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly. -- J. August Richards
My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P. -- T.I.
I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family. -- Brie Larson
One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust. -- Kumar Mangalam Birla
When I was younger, I thought LisaRaye sounded so country, but I've come to really appreciate my family-given name. I was named after my father, David Ray McCoy, and I'm totally a daddy's girl. -- LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
Baby names are a big debate in my family. Like true Colombian and Puerto Rican families, everybody and their mother is putting their two cents in - everything from Jose to Francisco to Victorio to Rain has been suggested. -- Paula Garces
I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart. -- Matt Groening
Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too? -- Diana Wynne Jones
Where everyone knows your name, and a safe place to raise a family. -- Terri Haynes Roach
It was the family tradition. I wanted to live up to the name-McNair. -- Steve McNair
More is required than a common last name to truly be called a family. -- Wes Fesler
I guess it was easier for her to change her name than for her whole family to change theirs. -- Vina Delmar
My Sims family is called the Cholly family. I don't know why I picked that name, it's kinda of random. -- Gerard Way
It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given. -- Sheri Holman
I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood. -- Helio Gracie
Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness. -- Neil Kurshan
Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing. -- Arthur Ashe
The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?' -- Yaya Toure
My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there. -- Matthew McConaughey
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Two things we have no control:The family in which you were born it to and the name you were given at birth. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Bobby's World touched a lot of people. That's why the family's last name is Generic. Uncle Ted is based on uncles we've all had. -- Howie Mandel
Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name. -- John Lydon
My name is very specific to my family. I'm very proud of being Nigerian. I understand that most people can't pronounce it, but that's OK. -- Toks Olagundoye
I was the third one in my family born, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name, -- Chord Overstreet
My father's family can be traced back to 1400. I've been told by gypsies that there is unmistakeably gypsy blood in me. Lee is a gypsy name, you know. -- Christopher Lee
Renunciation is not rejecting the family but accepting the whole world as family. Renunciation is not changing the name or dress. It is changing the attitude towards life. -- Amit Ray
It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport. -- Debi Thomas

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