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Quotes About Origin

For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.
~ Brendan O'Carroll
American? Indian? I don't know what these words mean. In Italy, it is all about blood, family, where you come from. I'm asked where I am from. I'm from nowhere; I always was, but now I am happy knowing it.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
I was born in Sherman Oaks, California.
~ Jennifer Aniston
I'm from Oakland and I started doing comedy around 2001.
~ Moshe Kasher
You see," continued the minister, bowing thankfully to the duke, "Dictionopolis is the place where all the words in the world come from. They're grown right here in our orchards.
~ Norton Juster
The first such suicide had come from the city of Batman, a hundred kilometers from Kars.
~ Orhan Pamuk
?itao sam u jednoj enciklopediji da rije? ateist potje?e od gr?kog athos. A ta rije? ne zna?i osobu koja ne vjeruje u Boga, nego usamljenika, osobu koju su bogovi napustili.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Ah, Vitaly, we all come from Eros. ~Sel Menach
~ Orson Scott Card
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
~ Oscar Wilde
What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else. Probably the best way is to be from Mars.
~ Cormac McCarthy
All law is writ in a seed.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Whoever would seek out his history through what unraveling of loins and ledgerbooks must stand at last darkened and dumb at the shore of a void without terminus or origin and whatever science he might bring to bear upon the dusty primal matter blowing down out of the millennia will discover no trace of any ultimate atavistic egg by which to reckon his commencing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
So where does music come from?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Tutte le cose piene di grazia e bellezza che ci portiamo nel cuore hanno un'origine comune nel dolore.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What is the inner life of an eidolon? Do his thoughts and his questions originate with him? Do mine with me? Is he my creature? Am I his? I
~ Cormac McCarthy
Where did the love come from? What was it made of?
~ Cornelia Funke
Manchmal denke ich, Angst ist die Ursache allen Unglücks
~ Cornelia Funke
It's very, very simple. You sit, either in a chair or on a prayer stool or mat, and allow your heart to open toward that invisible but always present Origin of all that exists.
~ Cynthia Bourgeault
It is impudence to say that Woman was made out of Man's body, she continued, when every man is born of woman. What impudence men have, what arrogance!
~ D.H. Lawrence
Four Noble Truths: the truth of the universality of suffering, the truth of the origin of suffering, the truth of the cessation of suffering, and the truth of the path leading to its cessation.
~ Dainin Katagiri
the origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user into the world of signs by a sign-giver.
~ Walker Percy
You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?
~ Wally Lamb
I speak the password primeval.
~ Walt Whitman