Quotes About Origin

Perhaps 'home' can be where one comes from, as well as where one lives.

Belgium's pommes frites are not french fries at all—a grievous misnomer, as this universally known and loved side order is Belgian in origin. Belgians make the best frites in the world: Crispy, sweet, lightly bronzed—these are the gold standard of fries.

Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost.

the addiction of the Spaniards of America to the dances of the jungle indicates a common ancestor to all the Latin-American dances that evolved in the ensuing centuries. Surely the earliest begetter of the rhumba, the samba, the son, and even the tango, can be none other than this calenda from the coast of Guinea? Even if its authentic African origin were not known, the description of the dance of the Congolese at once suggests to anybody who has seen it the Conga of the Negroes of Cuba.

The fixer is the source of the ailment, not the solution.

Where do you think stories come from, E'lir Kvothe? Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.

Begin at the beginning.' Very well, if we are to have a telling, let's make it a proper one.

Pantheism believes that all things are linked in a profound unity. All things have a common origin and a common destiny. All things are interconnected and interdependent. In life and in death we humans are an inseparable part of this unity, and in realizing this we can find our joy and our peace.

Nadie puede decir de dónde proviene un libro, y menos que nadie la persona que lo escribe. Los libros nacen de la ignorancia , y si continúan viviendo después de escritos es sólo en la medidad en que no pueden entenderse.

Forgery is just the most dramatic example of the importance of origin. Arthur Koestler described a friend who owned a drawing that she first took to be a reproduction. When she later discovered that it was an original by Picasso, she displayed it more prominently, claimed that she saw it differently, and enjoyed it more. For her, its value went up.

that Chaldea was the original home of these stories and that the Jews received them originally from the Babylonians

Whether or not migrants realize it, the impetus for their emigration is to escape from those aspects of their countries of origin that have condemned people to low productivity.

In the beginning, God . . ." These are four thunderously important words. They really do change everything,

The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any more than a study of silicon, copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program.

Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given ' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

In the beginning, all there was was the divine Mother. All things in the beginning are female.

say "From nothing comes nothing - Nihil ex nihilo!

Where do we come from?" "What are we?""Where are we going?

Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

Announcer - "And where are you from Pete?" Pete Townshend - "London, I'm from London." Announcer - "London where, exactly?" Pete - "London, England

While the origin of Cptsd is most often associated with extended periods of physical and/or sexual abuse in childhood, my observations convince me that ongoing verbal and emotional abuse also causes it.