Quotes About Origin

And if these men steal, if there is developing among them a suspicion and hatred of well-dressed, satisfied people, the reason is not to be sought in their origin nor in any tendency to weakness in their character.

Pre-Cambrian Memory.

Mice and Men is a compact and, in its origin, a highly personal response to the powerlessness of the California laboring class

but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself.

I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

My family were from Jamaica.

Everything is ideal to its parent.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

Pure energy is the father of creation.

Fear in the world first created the gods. [Lat., Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.]

Fear first made gods in the world.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

You can never change where you come from, you can only change where you are going...

It all starts right there

The future belongs to us, where we come from doesn't determine our destiny.

NEVER forget where you came from it might save you from where you could end up.

just as Eve was created from a rib of Adam, so a woman would come into existence while I was sleeping, conceived from some strain in the position of my limbs. Formed

Really, it is unheard of, this spontaneous generation of falsehood. I do not ask who it was that told you, but it would be really interesting, in a field as limited as this, to work back from one person to another and find out how the story arose

While the United States bars FGM within its borders, there is no federal law yet that punishes parents for taking their daughters to their countries of origin for FGM. Bills to deter the transport of girls for FGM have been introduced since 2010, but have not yet passed, which means girls who do not receive an illegal FGM here may still be transported to another country.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

You don't have any need for a creator. Quantum fluctuations mean that we are seeing something appearing from nothing all the time.