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Quotes About Origin

And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo?
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
The mai tai got its name when two Polynesian alcoholics got in a fight over some neckwear.
~ George Carlin
No one knew where wandering men had their homes or their origin; and how was a man to be explained unless you at least knew somebody who knew his father and mother?
~ George Eliot
The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.
~ George Eliot
Sleazy. An abbreviated form of silesia. A linen that took its name from Silesia in Hamborough, and not because it wore sleasy (1696). A piece of Slesey (1706).
~ George Francis Dow
They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else drown it out at the time?
~ Karl Pilkington
We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
~ Dan Miller
There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.
~ Siddhartha Mukherjee
Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers, and people kind of forget that sometimes.
~ Eva Marie Saint
I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.
~ Amy Tan
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
~ Clive Barker
I was scouted by this talent scout back home. She found me because I used to make my dad these CDs of my music, and I think that some guy that he worked with had a niece who worked with the talent scout, or something really drawn out, kind of word-of-mouth.
~ Brianna Hildebrand
According to the Law of Cause and Effect, every effect must have a cause. In other words, everything that happens has a catalyst; everything that came into being has something that caused it. Things don't just happen by themselves.
~ Ray Comfort
It keeps me humble just to know exactly where I came from and all the hard work I had to put in to be here. It feels good to reminisce about the past.
~ Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
I felt 'Quantum of Solace' completely lost its way. We were lucky on 'Casino Royale:' it was the origin story of Bond. Bond had the one and only affair that meant anything to him, and affected him throughout the rest of the series.
~ Martin Campbell
I do think there's some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.
~ Meghan Markle
I have thus given you a full statement of all that I know respecting the origin of Mormonism.
~ Charles Anthon
My father hails from Shantigrama in Hassan, but my family moved to Bengaluru. Even though I was born and raised in Bengaluru, I have strong ties with my roots.
~ Pranitha Subhash
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
~ Saint Jerome
omnia mala exempla ex rebus bonis orta sunt.
~ Sallust
He mentioned his present job, said his goal was to lead a telecom investment team in south Asia, and noted ties between his country of origin and the region he hoped to work in as well as two key relationships that would be useful. The little speech took less than a minute but was packed with information. He'd clearly given thought to every word and thoroughly rehearsed it.
~ Sally Helgesen
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
~ Samuel Butler
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~ Samuel Noah Kramer
The most significant myths of a given culture are usually the cosmogonic, or creation myths, the sacred stories evolved and developed in an effort to explain the origin of the universe, the presence of the gods, and the existence of man.
~ Samuel Noah Kramer