Quotes About Origin

But if you search further, you find in yourself nothing similar to God, but rather you affirm that God stands above all this as cause, origin, and the light of life of your intellective soul.

The belief that life on earth arose spontaneously from nonliving matter, is simply a matter of faith in strict reductionism and is based entirely on ideology.

Home. It's where we come from. Who we are.

Home is our starting point for connecting to the past.

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

I wait on the origin of night's sounds waking. I know that here only the blind man sings, even in rain The notes of drenched violins rise like warped mirrors' and the last clouds part slowly, like a cracked wheel.

Nearly all the rice protein used in superfoods and supplements sold in North America still comes from China and other Asian nations where product testing is virtually nonexistent. "To my knowledge, no company offering these products has yet been able to provide its customers an accurate 'country of origin

Everything began with a single breath. A light wind that started a sway, and the sway started a turn, and the turn... The turn started everything.

Come è che possono togliere i nomi così? Vossignoria non è d'accordo con me? Il nome del posto dove qualcuno è nato, dovrebbe essere sacro

This is where I come from. And it's where you come from. You'll never get away from that, and don't you forget it.

Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and for nations. They inform our sense of self; telling us what kind of people we believe we are, what kind of nation we believe in. They usually carry, at least, a hope that where we started might hold the key to where we are in the present. We can say, then, that much of the concern with origin stories is about our current needs and desires (usually to feel good about ourselves), not actual history.

My real name is Davenie Johanna Heatherton, but my older brother, Dick, couldn't pronounce Johanna when he was a boy. So he called me 'Joey.'

There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether it be in a mathematical proof, whether it be in a dance that you see on stage, really in every domain. But I think the question is, you know, where does that fluency and mastery come from?

Creation is absolute, 100 percent scientific proof that there was a Creator.

I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

Where are you from? inquired Anthony. He knew, but beauty had rendered him thoughtless.

Dicen los ocultistas, o algunos de ellos, que hay momentos supremos del alma en que ésta recuerda, con la emoción o con parte de la memoria, un momento, o un aspecto, o una sombra de una encarnación anterior. Y entonces, como regresa a un tiempo que está más cerca que su presente del origen y del comienzo de las cosas, siente, en cierto modo, una infancia y una liberación.

Who is not revolted by the idea of our soul's carnal origin, of the corporeal turbulence out of which our flesh is born, and which, however beautiful, is soiled by its origin, its birth?

the prehistoric irresponsibility of the eternal waters.

there has never been a satisfactory account of the origin of evil, and there will be none on this side of the consummation of the kingdom of God. Evil is a vast excrescence, a monstrous contradiction that cannot be explained but can only be denounced and resisted wherever it appears.64

I don't have any angel blood, as far as I know.