Quotes About Origin

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

I remember where I'm from. It's like, 'Dude, you used to work at Pizza Hut.' I still have the hat.

There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.

I am from a place called Sardhana, which is near Meerut.

I'm not from this Earth - I'm from Pluto. I moved to Seattle when I was 2.

Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

I was born out of classical music.

Nothing can come of nothing.

You can always go back to the place where you were comfortable, the place where you're from.

Where did God come from? It's certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born.

My spiritual journey began at conception.

I'm an L.A. girl, a Cali girl - a Cali girl from Connecticut.

I don't feel any connection to Russia.

In the dissection of the muscles, attention should be directed to the exact origin, insertion, and actions of each, and to its more important relations with surrounding parts.

So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.

So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that's suspicion, it's lower than probable cause. And then we have a right to call immigration and check you out.

I don't think I ever had a swollen head: I remember where I come from.

'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems sympathetic. After all, if the universe has only been around for roughly 14 billion years, isn't it legitimate to ask what was in existence before the mother-of-all-events cranked up the cosmos?

From the end spring new beginnings.

I always consider myself Syrian. I just happen to be born in Canada.

Nothing is made from nothing.

the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause.