Quotes About Origin

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.

But I have forgotten to tell you how I came into the world, and am telling you my father's story instead of my own. You seem to like hearing about it though, and you can't understand one without the other.

The christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun. [ An Essay on the Origin of Free-Masonry ]

Every child born in the world must be considered as deriving its existence from God. The world is this new to him as it was to the first that existed, and his natural right in it is of the same kind.

It is by tracing things to their origin, that we learn to understand them; and it is by keeping that line and that origin always in view, that we never forget them.

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race, have had their origin in this thing called revelation or revealed religion.

Here, then, is the origin and rise of government: namely, a mode rendered necessary by inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz, freedom and security.

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. freedom and security.

The House of Commons did not originate as a matter of right in the people to delegate or elect, but as a grant or boon.

Gerçek din bilimsel bilgimizin kayna??d?r; bu bilgiden de tüm sanatlar türemiÅŸtir.

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. freedom and security. And however our eyes may be dazzled with snow, or our ears deceived by sound; however prejudice may warp our wills, or interest darken our understanding, the simple voice of nature and of reason will say, it is right.

Who can have a better right to us than he that gives us our breath?

The author of "The Religion of Israel," speaking of Samson, says: "The story of Samson and his deeds originated in a Solar myth, which was afterwards transformed by the narrator into a saga about a mighty hero and deliverer of Israel. The very name 'Samson,' is derived from the Hebrew word, and means 'Sun.' The hero's flowing locks were originally the rays of the sun, and other traces of the old myth have been preserved." [73:5]

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

If man evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?

It's all about what she knows and not who she is or where she comes from." As

I'm a fighter. We come from the beginning, no gloves, no rules, no time limits.

When I go back home, I am just Jess, no-one special.

In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

I'm a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

I have always thought of myself as being Northern Irish because that's what I am.

I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.