Quotes About Origin

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.

It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.

This is America. In our country it doesn't matter a lick where you are from, it only matters where you're going.

I don't think it matters where I came from any more.

You can't run from your roots of who you are.

I know where I come from and what my roots are.

You can't run from your roots.

I keep my feet on the ground because of my roots and the way I was raised.

Sometimes it can be easy to forget where your roots are or where you came from.

I always had my roots in the past.

My roots are in theater.

My mom says I was born screaming.

I can't remember what my first script was.

I'm from Seattle.

I've realized that I owe people a look behind the scenes of my own story, because I don't think anyone can have a true understanding of the music without an insight into where it came from.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.

My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually.

I'm very Belgian, and I will die Belgian. I just have my house in the north of France because I began my career in Paris, even though I don't live there anymore.

I think cool originates with the jazz culture in the '40s. There was probably cool before that, but that's when people started talking about cool - Miles Davis and Charlie Parker and a bunch of other early, cool jazz folk.

Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows.

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history.

There exists hardly any other New Testament text that is more unambiguous and firm in Jesus' mission on earth and his divine origin, indeed his identification with God,114 and that is sterner in its attitude toward the Jews than the Gospel of John.