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Quotes About Origin

Kitty's always saying how origin stories are important. At college, when people ask us how we met, how will we answer them? The short story is, we grew up together. But that's more Josh's and my story. High school sweet-hearts? That's Peter and Gen's story. So what's ours, then? I suppose I'll say it all started with a love letter.
~ Jenny Han
Firsts are best because they are beginnings.
~ Jenny Han
The most useful definition we have is that an epidemic is a severe local outbreak, while a pandemic is a global outbreak that makes people very sick, and spreads rapidly from a point of origin.
~ Jeremy Brown
Life itself: Its origin and nature.
~ Jeremy Narby
If you want to say, Lucia, there is no inside of the park benches, I won't argue with you. But, then you have to say where the pigeons come from.
~ Jesse Ball
No one knows who coined the term, but it fit, and the Montauk became the first building to be called a skyscraper.
~ Erik Larson
That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here.
~ Ernest Hemingway
That was where our fishing began
~ Ernest Hemingway
?stais ?aunums s?kas ar pašu nevain?g?ko.
~ Ernests Hemingvejs
Darn your Barnum and Bailey circus lingo, Big. This isn't a thing to mock at. I should think the origin of man would be something that would appeal even to your hothouse imagination. Modern science believes—knows—that Asia was the first home of the human race. That's where we're going, to the great Central Asian plateau north of the Himalayas.
~ Eugene O'Neill
But the ones who were there at the beginning are the ones that rumble a lot.
~ Andrew Morton
Monsters make monsters make monsters.
~ Andrew Smith
Later, it was said the man came from the north, from Ropers Gate.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.
~ Andy Anderson
According to J. Naveh, the Semitic alphabets originated with Proto-Canaanite (eighteenth to seventeenth centuries BCE), from which there was derived around 1300 BCE the Proto-Arabic script, the ancestor of the systems used in the South Arabian and Ethiopic scripts.
~ Angel Sáenz-Badillos
Fairies] had their origin when the rebellious angel Lucifer and his followers were expelled from Heaven, and God the Son warned God the Father that Heaven would soon be empty. Like figures in a film that is suddenly stopped, the expelled angels falling toward Hell halted where they were: some mid-air, others in the earth, and some in the ocean, and that is where they remain.
~ Angela Bourke
We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.
~ Angelo Scola
strabismic adj. late 17th century: modern Latin, from Greek strabismos, from
~ Angus Stevenson
shag4 /?aÉ¡/ I. verb — [with obj.] 1. [Baseball] chase or catch (fly balls) for practice. • you run down to the field and hit a few baseballs and shag a few fly balls. – origin early 20th cent.: of unknown origin.
~ Angus Stevenson
First there wasn't, then there was. Before God no one was.
~ Anita Amirrezvani
For my part, I hold it equally impossible for a small shellfish to be produced without generation as for a whale to have its origin from the mud.
~ Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Do not forget from whence you've come.
~ Cory Booker
Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you?
~ Edward Teach
Whenever you have a role where you don't get to know anything about the character, you have to invent it yourself. You have to feel like it came from somewhere.
~ Cameron Britton