Quotes About Origin

It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally.

The word nepotism comes, in fact, from nipote, Italian for nephew.

If the origin of things is from within the cosmos, then, possibly, the control of all things can come from something within that cosmos. This faith leads to man playing God, to man attempting to control evolution, to a belief in a world state controlling all things, and to a religious belief in the powers of time and process.

More than any other food, oysters taste like the place they come from.

Jodi Byrd writes: "The story of the new world is horror, the story of America a crime." It is necessary, she argues, to start with the origin of the United States as a settler-state and its explicit intention to occupy the continent. These origins contain the historical seeds of genocide. Any true history of the United States must focus on what has happened to (and with) Indigenous peoples—and what still happens.

Nwt. Her name is the basis of English words such as nocturnal, night and equinox.

The germ of creation lies in violence.

But Palestine was derived from the name "Philistine," the people who were constantly at war with the ancient Israelites.

Wilderness, our original home, is the place from which all life comes, the place that offers us challenge and beauty, adventure and comfort, triumph, and memory.

What does the name Ryan mean? Ryan is an Irish/American name that means The Little King or The Little Ruler.

In its origin the idea of right is so simple, so humble, one may say, that philosophers have gone elsewhere for its explanation.

He believed, as did Marcus Garvey, that freedom, independence and self-respect could never be achieved by the Negro in America, and that therefore the Negro should leave America to the white man and return to his African land of origin.

consideravano il minuscolo angolo di mondo dal quale provenivano come un semplice punto di partenza

Whatever you encounter in life, consider its origin, what it's made of, what it's changing into, what it will be like after it's changed, and that it will come to no harm as a result of changing.

and falling upon that earth, out of whose gifts and fruits my father gathered his seed, my mother her blood, and my nurse her milk, out of which for so many years I have been

justice in thought, in act unselfishness and a tongue that cannot lie and a disposition ready to welcome all that befalls as unavoidable, as familiar, as issuing from a like origin and fountain-head.

the Bible—human in origin, sacred in status and function—is both metaphor and sacrament. As metaphor, it is a way of seeing—a way of seeing God and our life with God. As sacrament, it is a way that God speaks to us and comes to us.

But what they share in common is an understanding of the authority of the Bible grounded in its origin: it is true because it comes from God.

Mutually incompatible theories abound as to where, when, and why the synoptic gospels came to final form.

Thus the lens I am advocating does not see the Bible as a whole as divine in origin, or some parts as divine and some as human. It is all a human product, though generated in response to God.

If people think that friendship springs from weakness and from a purpose to secure someone through whom we may obtain that which we lack, they assign her, if I may so express it, a lowly pedigree indeed, and an origin far from noble, and they would make her the daughter of poverty and want.

One look at a banana and you can tell it came from outer space.

Daughters of Naiads were a dime a dozen in those days; the place was crawling with them. Nevertheless, it never hurts to be of semi-divine birth. Or it never hurts immediately.

Do you know what it came from? said Luke. Mayday? It's French, he said. From m'aidez. Help me.