Quotes About Origin

Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind

God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth.

A man is the origin of his action.

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

It's not where you start, but whether you start.

the Middle Ages was the period during which most of the art depicting angels--still used today as models--originated. The New Catholic Encyclopedia says that actually the figural type of the Christian angel was derived from the winged Greek goddess of victory, Nike.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

The firstling of the infant year.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

I'm from Limburg, near the German border.

For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.

Necessity creates everything in my life.

The Netflix thing with Nas is more of a documentary, where we kind of... talk. We go to my neighborhood. You get to see where I'm from and all that. And then, I'm in the studio with Nas.

My neutral accent is Bolton.

You can just never forget where you came from.

You never forget where you come from.