Blake

Blake

Blake is a surname or a given name which originated from Old English. Its derivation is uncertain; it could come from "blac", a nickname for someone who had dark hair or skin, or from "blaac", a nickname for someone with pale hair or skin. Another theory is that it is a corruption of "Ap Lake", meaning "Son of Lake".

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Famous quotes containing the word blake:

    For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
    —Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in Ephesians, 6:12.

    St. Paul’s words were used by William Blake as an epigraph to The Four Zoas (c. 1800)

    When a man has married a wife, he finds out whether
    Her knees and elbows are only glued together.
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    Struggling in my father’s hands,
    Striving against my swaddling bands,
    Bound and weary, I thought best
    To sulk upon my mother’s breast.
    —William Blake (1757–1827)