Quotes About Origin

We are the beginning ... We always have been. This time, let it be more than a beginning.

In the legends, chimaera were sprung from tears and seraphim from blood, but in this moment they are, all of them, children of regret.

In truth, she had claim to no nationality. Her papers were all forgeries, and her accents -all except one, in her first language, which was not of human origin- were all fakes.

Still, it was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she thought, what she knew.

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.

Fig. 148. Cartesian Equation of the Cone Mid-point of base as Origin. The distance (d) between two points (P1 and P2) in 3-dimensional space (Fig. 147) is given by: d2 = (x2 ? x1)2 + (y2 ? y1)2 + (z2 ? z1)2 It is sometimes easier to obtain the Cartesian equation of a figure by first defining it in cylindrical co-ordinates and substituting: y = r sin A; x = r cos A Figs. 148 and 149 disclose the genesis of Cartesian equations which describe the cone and the sphere:

Gambling is the origin of more extensive misery than all other crimes put together; and the mischief falls principally on the unoffending and helpless; it leads, by insensible degrees, a greater number of wretches to the gallows than the higher atrocities from which that terminus is seen more plainly.

A pure fountain gives pure water

THE ACTUAL WORD 'influenza' dates from around 1500, when the Italians introduced the term for diseases that they attributed to the 'influence' of the stars. Another possible origin was the Italian phrase influenza di freddo, the influence of the cold.

You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.

the beginning is where the end gets born.

Un nombre bastante anticuado. Nos preguntábamos de dónde lo habrías sacado. Casi me atraganto con la comida.

The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts.

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

Whatever begins to exist has a cause.

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

The cat was created when the lion sneezed.

The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.

If time and space are curved, where do all of the straight people come from?

Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea. To add to the mystery, the domain of our earthly existence is not only an island in infinite space, but also in infinite time. The past and the future are alike shrouded from us: we neither know the origin of anything which is, nor its final destination.

The word blizzard probably derives from an Indian word, although its origin is now lost. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first written record of blizzard comes from the frontiersman Colonel Davy Crockett in 1834. Since Crockett used it without explanation, as though the reader would already know the word, we may assume that blizzard had already attained common usage by that time.

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