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Quotes About Origin

It's French, he said. From m'aidez. Help me.
~ Margaret Atwood
One of the most important things is to remind yourself of where you are from and be thankful. I don't for a second take anything for granted. That's a good way to start your day.
~ Colin Morgan
Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. Where did the totality of reality come from? Did time have a beginning?
~ Brian Greene
Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.
~ Wangari Maathai
In the beginning of time, light drew out matter along with itself into a mass as great as the fabric of the world.
~ Robert Grosseteste
wine stores should organize their bottles not by origin and varietal but by alcohol content and intensity of flavor
~ Anne Fadiman
I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.
~ Anne Lamott
What can we say beyond Wow, in the presence of glorious art, in music so magnificent that it can't have originated solely on this side of things? Wonder takes our breath away, and makes room for new breath.
~ Anne Lamott
We made our paints from the bones of the animals we painted. No image forgets this origin.
~ Anne Michaels
You know nothing... And suppose the vampire who made you knew nothing, and the vampire who made that vampire knew nothing, and the vampire before him knew nothing, and so it goes back and back, nothing proceeding from nothing, until there is nothing! And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge.
~ Anne Rice
In the beginning were the spirits.
~ Anne Rice
He must have some Tartar in him, don't you think?" "I have no idea," Kate said. "Or is it 'Tatar.
~ Anne Tyler
All bodies are part of matter, created at the big bang, 10 billion years before the earth appeared. Yes, your overall body is composed of about 7 octillion venerable atoms (that's a 7 with twenty-seven zeros after it), mostly produced by exploding stars. You are literally stardust; so is everything around you.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Blayne turned her head to look at Gwen, but caught sight of Dee-Ann standing behind them. Ahh! Where the hell did you come from? Momma says from the love she shares with my daddy, Dee calmly replied.
~ Shelly Laurenston
What the hell are you? (Desiderius) I'm her godfather, with a heavy emphasis on the god part. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.
~ Paul Davies
Noone knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart.. it comes from being alive.
~ Richard Carlson
Christianity offers the only viable, reasonable, definitive answer to the questions of Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? Does life have any meaningful purpose?
~ Tom DeLay
The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life.
~ John Jeremiah Bigsby
We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we call life.
~ Frederick Lenz
Thus shadow owes its birth to light.
~ John Gay
the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began ...
~ John Geddes
The point is that all of the known nations and peoples resulted from the blessing God had established from the beginning. National and ethnic diversity was not an aberration. There is no room for the concept that there is one pure race while others are tainted, somehow the result of sin or corruption.
~ John H. Walton