Quotes About Origin

Culture is the celebration of diversity. Let us therefore not deny our origin; but instead celebrate ours as a cultural mosaic not a tower of Babel , but a power of Babel

It was believed that all creation came from thought, language, and mathematics.

I think of the meaning of the word testimony. Originally it named the custom of two men holding each other's testicles in a gesture of trust, later to metamorphose into the handshake.

But they know who Adam is from they own point of view. And for a whole lot longer time ago. And who that? Mr. ______ ast. The first man that was white. Not the first man. They say nobody so crazy they think they can say who was the first man. But everybody notice the first white man cause he was white.

You know me now. I'm only good at beginnings.

Love that bore me I bear back to my Origin with no loss, I float over the vomiter thrilled with my deathlessness, thrilled with this endlessness I dice and bury, come Poet shut up eat my word, and taste my mouth in your ear.

Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters.

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

Why's your name Yolk?' 'Er... don't know. Was my father's name... I guess.' 'Think you're the best part of the egg, do you, Yolk?

Some Arab invented the idea of the number zero," I said. "Isn't that weird? Someone had to think zero up."   Because it isn't obvious—that nothing can be something. That something which can't be measured or seen could still exist and have meaning. Same with the soul, when you think about it.  

The Nile is mine; I made it

Everything that man in the beginning heard, saw with his eyes, contemplated, and felt with his hands, was a living word. For God was the Word. With this Word in his mouth and in his heart, the origin of language was as natural, as near and easy, as child's play.

This was the bullet at the birth of drug prohibition, and nobody knows where it came from, even now.

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth

Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.