Quotes About Origin

All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.

This book was born as I was hungry. Let m eexplain.

When I was very little, I had an Essex accent.

I've always known I was adopted.

Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian.

I never wanted to become an actress. I come from an air force background.

I don't see myself as some television star; I see myself as a girl from Albany.

My first album came out in 1979.

I was born in Amsterdam.

Too many artists appear to forget where they came from.

The older I get, the more appreciative I am of where I came from.

According to the Law of Biogenesis, life arises only from preexisting life.

I'm from Tucson, Arizona.

Perceptions employed as a base for building up positive concepts are the origin of all ignorance (avidya);[1] perception that there is nothing to perceive — that is nirvana, also known as deliverance.

Tolkien preserved this postcard carefully, and long afterwards he wrote on the paper cover in which he kept it: 'Origin of Gandalf'.

Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.

We accept gravity, aerodynamics, photosynthesis, thermodynamics, relativity, quantum mechanics, sexual reproduction, rain, thunder, earthquakes, volcanoes, and tidal waves, all based on science. But when it comes to the origin and nature of life itself we take leave of our senses for a trip into the supernatural. We literally lose our minds. Even

At any time, people suffering severe psychological distress that is not of organic or other biological origin "choose" from socially available and clinically reinforced modes.

Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.

Our objective is to achieve, by the understanding of the Origin, the Knowledge which comes through experience.

El hombre es el microcosmos, la creación, el macrocosmos: la unidad. Todo procede del Uno.

I just didn't know where he'd come from. Or, as Mina would no doubt say, from where he'd come.

The Cosmos itself is God, for it is alive, it is Grand and it is the origin of all energies.

The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Fantasie Impromptu, the Bayeux tapestries, Romeo and Juliet, the windows of Chartres Cathedral, Paradise Lost - and a pulp murder story by Dan Moody. The process is the same in all; if the results are a little uneven, that doesn't invalidate the basic similarity of origin.