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Quotes About Origin

The word 'color' means at its origin to 'cover' or 'hide.' Matter eats up light and 'covers' it with a confusion of color.
~ Robert Smithson
Blends are often developed according to the price of the coffee, not the taste.
~ Robert W. Thurston
thoughts have their origin in this stillness.
~ Robert Wolfe
At the dawn of organic sentience
~ Robert Wright
Todo nace en el corazón como de la nada nace el gusano en el corazón de la manzana.
~ Roberto Bolano
For the first few miles the highway ran through a little valley dotted with rocks that seemed to have fallen from the sky. Chunks of granite with no origin or context.
~ Roberto Bolano
Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountain.
~ Robinson Jeffers
Every pandemic in the history of the world has come from China.
~ Lisa See
Everything always returns to the beginning.
~ Lisa See
that was where he came from
~ Louis L'Amour
It was from ignorance on how the great business was founded.
~ Ron Chernow
For all these years no one has known and no one seems to have cared how it came into existence.
~ Ron Chernow
The United States is not unique among nations in forging an origin myth, but most of its citizens believe it to be exceptional among nation-states, and this exceptionalist ideology has been used to justify appropriation of the continent and then domination of the rest of the world.
~ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Dobrý lov vám vÅ¡em, kdo jste z mé krve
~ Rudyard Kipling
Start again. Tell the readers how they met. Start at the beginning.
~ Ruth Ozeki
A book must start somewhere. Listen…
~ Ruth Ozeki
Is birth always a fall?
~ Salman Rushdie
it seems profoundly unlikely that our universe has been designed to reward individual primates for killing one another while believing in the divine origin of a specific book.
~ Sam Harris
I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.
~ Roger Bannister
My great strength is knowing who I am and where I come from - my island.
~ Oscar de la Renta
The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
Não é a árvore que deixa a flor, é a flor que deixa a árvore
~ Alexandre Dumas
The province of Texas is still part of the Mexican dominions, but it will soon contain no Mexicans; the same thing has occurred whenever the Anglo-Americans have come into contact with populations of a different origin.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
People think that the destructive theories that nowadays go by the name "socialism" are of recent origin. This is a mistake: these theories were contemporaneous with the first Economists. While they employed the all-powerful government of their dreams as an instrument to change the forms of society, socialists imagined seizing the same power to undermine its base.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville