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Quotes About Origin

A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.
~ Layne Staley
Whence has come thy lasting power.
~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.
~ Terry Pratchett
Words derive their power from the original word.
~ Meister Eckhart
No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.
~ Jane Elliot
Every true revival from that day to this has had its earthly origin in prayer.
~ R. A. Torrey
When the Orthodox tradition of biblical knowledge is taken as a whole, which is not easily attainable, taking years and multiple teachers, it can clearly be seen that the Torah was composed by influence of divine origin, a position that stands in opposition to the common scholarly opinion that it is the garbled mess of a multitude of redactors.
~ William Rosenau
Nothing will come of nothing.
~ William Shakespeare
Find out the cause of this effect,Or rather say, the cause of this defect,For this effect defective comes by cause.
~ William Shakespeare
Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.
~ William Whewell
I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.
~ William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
~ To begin, begin.
Human nature is what Heaven supplies.
~ Xun Zi
No one actually witnessed the first numbers come into being-when we first became aware of them, they'd already been around for a long time.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
Considering that less than 4 percent of the world's population are immigrants (living in a country they were not born in), the assumption that one's life chances are independent of one's country of origin is deceptive
~ Yael Tamir
Their flag has two background colours: green representing the ground below, and blue for the sky above. In its centre it depicted a wheel: this symbolized the image of the Romani people as travellers and, resembling the 24-spoke wheel known as the Ashoka Chatra which features in the centre of the flag of India, it served as a reference to the Roms' historical country of origin.
~ Yaron Matras
Humanity is a kind of animal, inextricably connected with other animals: in origin and in descent, in sickness and in health.
~ David Quammen
Dicho de la manera más tajante: las presiones y disrupciones ecológicas de origen humano sitúan a los patógenos animales en contacto creciente con las poblaciones humanas, al tiempo que nuestra tecnología y comportamiento diseminan esos patógenos cada vez más amplia y más rápidamente.
~ David Quammen
So much for where as well as when. AIDS began with a spillover from one chimp to one human, in southeastern Cameroon, no later than 1908 (give or take a margin of error), and grew slowly but inexorably from there.
~ David Quammen
Desde luego, todo tiene un origen; y, dado que los seres humanos somos un primate relativamente nuevo, ha resultado lógico suponer que nuestras enfermedades infecciosas más antiguas han llegado a nosotros - transformadas, al menor ligeramente, por la evolución- procedentes de otros huéspedes animales.
~ David Quammen
AIDS began with a spillover from one chimp to one human, in southeastern Cameroon, no later than 1908
~ David Quammen
All things human begin with words.
~ David Rains Wallace
The name Wisconsin is believed by some to be a derivation of the word Wishkonsing, place of the beaver.)
~ David Rhodes
Our word "Phoenician" comes from ancient Greek. Phoinikes, "red people," was what the Greeks called them, probably in reference to their copper skin color.
~ David Sacks