Quotes About Origin

No one ever questions where all these pictures in magazines and books come from.

The main thing is to try to put in your head that we all start from the bottom.

A river no more begins at its source than a story begins with the first page.

I shall start at the beginning. Though of course, the beginning is never where you think it is.

God - it's merely shorthand for where we come from, where we're going and what it's all about

I think your father believes that the interest so many people take in puzzles and problems — which often starts in earliest childhood — represents more than a mere desire for recreation; that it may even derive from man's eternal curiosity about his origin. Anyway, it makes use of certain faculties for progressive, cumulative search which no other mental exercise does.

It's only the word God, you know--it makes such a conventional noise. It's only shorthand for where we come from, where we're going, and what it's all about. And do religious people find out what it's all about? Do they really get the answer to the riddle? They just get a whiff of an answer sometimes.

If we isolate the stray thought, the passing thought, he said, the thought whose origin is unfathomable, then we begin to understand that we are routinely deranged, everyday crazy.

The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt so tainted, and worthless, and wrong-only that I did, and whenever I looked up from my books I was swamped by slimy waters rushing in from all sides.

Let us, then, have it settled in our minds that the sinfulness of man does not begin from without, but from within. It is not the result of bad training in early years. It is not picked up from bad companions and bad examples, as some weak Christians are too fond of saying. No! It is a family disease that we all inherit from our first parents, Adam and Eve, and with which we are born.

Dim or indistinct views of sin are the origin of most of the errors, heresies and false doctrines of the present day. If

somos nosotros, los psicoanalistas, quienes en el silencio de la escucha imaginamos mentalmente, en forma de escena, el origen del sufrimiento experimentado por el neurótico".

in the beginning. Thank you, Black Entertainment Television (BET

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

Have you ever wondered who you would be if you hadn't grown up in the Syndicate Worlds?" "You mean, if I'd been born on some Alliance planet?" "Perhaps," Iceni said. "Or perhaps somewhere else. Some star system far away, where they've never heard of the Alliance or the Syndicate Worlds or the war. Suppose you had grown up there? Who would you be?

GMT was originally defined by the transit

I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news. Every known detail of the origin of mankind is extremely important to such a specialist as Dr. Mondrick, but it doesn't interest the man in the street - not unless it's dramatized.

Paradójicamente, a partir de que el hombre adjudicó a la materia el papel que le correspondía a la Conciencia como origen de todas las cosas, perdió la posibilidad de explicar su propia existencia, cuando su motivación era precisamente entenderla.

La estructura del Cerebro en su conjunto es una macro distorsión compleja de la Lattice y su actividad distorsiona a la misma Lattice que le da origen.

Man was made of a little mud and water. Could not a woman be made of dew, earthen mists and beams of light, condensed remnants of a rainbow?

Omul a fost z?mislit din lut ?i ap?. De ce o femeie n-ar fi n?scut? din rou?, aburi p?mânte?ti ?i raze de lumin?, din r?m??i?ele unui curcubeu f?râmat? Ce este cu putin???... ?i ce e cu neputin???...

Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn't even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.

I WAS BORN on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pépin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth. The midwife lined a shoebox with dishtowels and put me inside, placing the makeshift incubator between two bricks that had been warmed on the stove.

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.