Quotes About Origin

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 to drown it out at the time?

Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.

I was born in Mount Kisco, New York-although my family was living in the Bronx at the time. That's just where I decided to be born.

I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I'm from.

Once upon a time there was no Time.

Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.

For me it's important to get the origin of the character like in the Richard Donner superman. We saw him became slowly a super hero but i think it's important to take time and stay realistic.

I didn't know at the time I was writing Because of Winn-Dixie where the story came from, but in retrospect I can see that it was a response to a terribly harsh winter here in Minnesota.

We are the beginning ... We always have been. This time, let it be more than a beginning.

Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.

el origen secreto del humor no es la alegría sino la tristeza

In making this substitution I had drawn upon the wisdom of a very remote source — the wisdom of my boyhood — for the true statesman does not despise any wisdom, howsoever lowly may be its origin:  in my boyhood I had always saved my pennies and contributed buttons to the foreign missionary cause.

In making this substitution I had drawn upon the wisdom of a very remote source—the wisdom of my boyhood—for the true statesman does not despise any wisdom, howsoever lowly may be its origin:

Scientists estimate the universe unfolded from its state of infinite destiny* - a moment commonly referred to as the big bang - approximately 1.3-2 x 10^10 years ago. *Typo: destiny should read density.

Is it from your cheek that I took the seed?

How do you think the world popped into existence? - I'd say wee we are at least five Albert Einsteins away from answering this question.

Mere anxiety is the source of everything

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

La renuncia no quita. La renuncia da. Da la fuerza inagotable de lo sencillo. El aliento (del camino de campo) hace morar en un largo origen.

To be worthy of its New Testament origin, the church must seek to transform both individual lives and the social situation that brings to many people anguish of spirit and cruel bondage.