Quotes About Origin

I loved you then. I loved you no matter where you came from. No—scratch that." His voice floated up to her. "I loved you because you came from wherever it was. It must have been a magic place, to produce you.

Dubium sapientiae initium. ( Doubt is the origin of wisdom .)

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

are now, but it's your roots, and roots determine how you sprout.

Everything sent out returns to the source—you.

Rdx enim omnium malrum est cupidits. (I Timothy 6.10: rdx, rdcis, f., root; source, origin; "radical," "radish.")

The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril.

The year 1945 in this sense marked the origin of a rivalry between the United States and China's Communists that, like a recurring illness, has always reinstated itself, and has bedeviled the relations between the two sides even after periods of near-rhapsodic warmth and declarations of common interest, during which the suspicions and animosities of the past seem to have been put permanently to rest.

There are few of us who do not believe that there is something special about the place in which we were born.

Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!

The origin of the word "body" is the Anglo-Saxon "bodig" meaning abode. Which is what the physical body is, you see, Robert. A transient dwelling for the real self.

Always let your conscience be your guide is advice of doubtful value. Conscience must be, among other things, a list of sayings, an anthology of quotations and precepts. Where did they come from, and who first wrote them on my empty slate, and why?

As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.

the word tree and the word truth come from the same root.

It occurs to Adam where the word radical came from. Radix. Wrad. Root. The plant's, the planet's, brain.

Love is not something you do; love is someone you are. It is your True Self.8 Love is where you came from and love is where you're going. It's not something you can buy. It's not something you can attain. It is the presence of God within you, called the Holy Spirit—or what some theologians name uncreated grace.

The archetypal idea of "home" points in two directions at once. It points backward toward an original hint and taste for union, starting in the body of our mother.

In the beginning. I wasn't there.

It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.

a birthmark the shape of Africa.

The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.

Ein Mensch kann irgendwo arbeiten und seine Steuern zahlen, aber am Ende will er dorthin zurück, wo er aufwachsen ist

Whatever had made those marks seemed to have come out of the water.

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice