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Quotes About Origin

Refugee problems can only be solved in the region (of origin) - maybe with a little help from the UN. Governments must provide something for their countries. They need to deliver.
~ Yoweri Museveni
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
~ Sallust
No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.
~ Peter O'Toole
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
~ Lao Tzu
I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.
~ Harold Prince
Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package.
~ E. R. Squibb
As we've focused more on our food and where it comes from, people now have greater awareness of what's being put onto our food, pesticides, labeling issues, and consumer health.
~ Dolores Huerta
Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.
~ Kenneth Frampton
If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.
~ Bob Marley
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.
~ Pope John Paul II
It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history.
~ Klaus Nomi
Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.
~ Novak Djokovic
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.
~ James Fenton
I realized that part of that anger was because I didn't know who I was and where I came from. I didn't know my history.
~ Shola Lynch
Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael.
~ Mike Lupica
At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.
~ Michael Pollan
Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.
~ Lynn Viehl
The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.
~ Lou Henry Hoover
As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself.
~ William C. Brown
Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.
~ Avi Arad
The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thank God for Darwin, eh?
~ Bill Bailey