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Quotes About Origin

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree......unless that tree's growing on top of a hill.
~ John DePrey
Are you sure you weren't adopted?""Mom would like to think so, but it was a natural birth, so her memory's real clear.
~ Jana Deleon, Unlucky
Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
God was created by evolution, inside the imagination of a primate.
~ Steve Fowler
The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.
~ John Ambrose Fleming
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
~ C. S. Lewis
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Computers had their origin in military cryptography-in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.
~ Austin Grossman
You are all stardust.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
The Americans sowed the seed, and now they have reaped the whirlwind
~ Sebastian Coe
The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.
~ Frederick Lenz
And now it is time for my story to end, because we have finally reached the beginning.
~ Caroline Flohr
In the beginning was the sea, and the sea was the world
~ Chika Onyenezi, Sea Lavender
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
~ James Weldon Johnson
Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.
~ Jan de Bont
SAU&G line originated in 1909 in Crystal City and
~ Jan Jarboe Russell
Are you sure you weren't adopted?" "Mom would like to think so, but it was a natural birth, so her memory's real clear.
~ Jana Deleon
I have had a suspicion all my life that in the current dictionaries and grammars often the real explanation and origin of a word or a grammatical form is to be found in something that comes in just at the end as a 'derived' form or 'exceptional' use. This I believe to be the case with the aorist; the true primitive essential aorist I believe to be the gnomic, the temporal aorist a later derivative, in fact the aorist I believe to be primarily not a tense at all but an aspect.
~ Jane Ellen Harrison
Geldi?imiz yer ve bizi olu?turan ?ey 'Anne'dir. Mitolojide ve dinde, bu kaynak genellikle bir tür ana tanr?ça, ekseriyetle de bir okyanus tanr?ças? olarak tasvir edilir. Hayat?n nas?l okyanusta ba?lad??? dü?ünülüyorsa, insan hayat? da annede, daha do?rusu rahimde ba?lar. Dolay?s?yla, hem mitolojik düzeyde, hem de dünyevi düzeyde hayat?n kayna?? annedir.
~ Jasmin Lee Cori
The most important thing is to begin.
~ Jason Fried
Las palabras de etimología desconocida, también con ‹b›.
~ Javier Álvarez
A esta norma escaparon algunas palabras, ya que su uso con ‹b› y ‹v› antietimológica estaba demasiado extendido, y se consideró como la forma correcta: ‹b› antietimológica: «abogado» (del latín advocatus), «abuelo» (del latín aviolus), «buitre» (del latín vulturem), etc. ‹v› antietimológica: «maravilla» (del latín mirabilia), etc.
~ Javier Álvarez
Circula una etimología popular que asegura que la etimología de «testigo» (y cualquier derivado como «testamento») proviene de la costumbre que tenían los romanos de apretarse los testículos con la mano cuando juraban decir la verdad.
~ Javier Álvarez