Quotes About Origin

Between the two lay a multitude of political units—republics and despots—in part of long standing, in part of recent origin, whose existence was founded simply on their power to maintain it.

The world began in ending, and it will end in beginning.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.

Take no one's word for anything, including mine—but trust your experience. Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.

Take no one's word for anything, including mine—but trust your experience. Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there really is no limit to where you can go.

Sin is the only heritage of the natural man...

The Ideal This is where I came from. I passed this way. This should not be shameful Or hard to say. A self is a self. It is not a screen. A person should respect What he has been. This is my past Which I shall not discard. This is the ideal. This is hard.

I come from the underground, from the ground.

I don't think about a theory of everything when I do my research. And even if we knew the ultimate underlying theory, how are you going to explain the fact that we're sitting here? Solving string theory won't tell us how humanity was born.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

Booze' was once a popular term in the slang or 'cant' of the criminal underworld, which may explain its rebellious overtones today.

If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African.

If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.

Everything starts from inside of us, then comes outside of us.

I know where I come from, where I am now and where the wish to go.

Am I a spaceman? Do I belong to a new race on earth, bred by men from outer space in embraces with earth women?

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

Life cannot arise spontaneously but comes only from preexisting life.

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

Now that I get a chance on the big stage, it's even more important to remember where I came from.

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.