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Quotes About Origin

I'm a child of the Earth, postcode unknown.
~ Nathan Phillips
I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.
~ Dion Boucicault
It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.
~ Kingsley Amis
As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.
~ Pema Chodron
Kind and lovely thought originate from God while evil and revengeful thoughts are initiated by the devil.
~ Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The earth had two childrenA son named Adamand a daughter
~ Karan Patade
It has been discovered that all the world is made of the same atoms, that the stars are of the same stuff as ourselves. It then becomes a question of where our stuff came from. Not just where did life come from, or where did the earth come from, but where did the stuff of life and of the earth come from?
~ Richard P. Feynman
It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?
~ Nigel Farage
Pittsburgh's home. This is where it all started. This is always going to be home. I always have to get back to Pittsburgh and get some work done.
~ Aaron Donald
Just going to Africa is amazing; it all comes back to the motherland. It's pretty much where everything started.
~ Amar'e Stoudemire
I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
~ Adam D'Angelo
I have no problem with starting from scratch.
~ Leif Garrett
Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.
~ Terry Pratchett
Everything I make starts very personally.
~ Baz Luhrmann
I honestly don't remember when and why I started calling my mom 'Momsi'. These are family things; it starts for some reason. It's not that I just call her Momsi; I call her other things as well!
~ Viswanathan Anand
I think Yandex is something in between two different cultures. One originated from the old Soviet culture of the scientific institute. It was a free atmosphere of scientists, maybe too free because nobody cared about making money. Another origin is something close to what you usually see in California startups.
~ Arkady Volozh
I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.
~ Kristi Noem
Where I'm from, you go to college, become a carpenter or something, and stay in the district.
~ Travis Fimmel
There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.
~ J. M. Coetzee
Obviously, if I'm in Argentina, I'm going to have a steak, but I don't love meat, really. I always think about where the food came from and who had to get it.
~ Julia Stiles
The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance.
~ John Eccles
My roots are Carnatic music. I think everything stems from that.
~ Sid Sriram
Every character when born is a stereotype.
~ Michael Patrick King
We therefore should be more skeptical than we seem to be about evidence presented to us secondhand. We should become accustomed to asking ourselves where the information originated, and how much distortion—deliberate or otherwise—is likely to have been introduced along the way.
~ Thomas Gilovich