Quotes About Origin

For Ignatius, ingratitude was the "most abominable of sins," indeed "the cause, the beginning and origin of all sins and misfortunes.

When I speak as the genius I am, I speak these words for the first time. To repeat words is to speak them as though another were saying them, in which case I am not saying them. To be the genius of my speech is to be the origin of my words, to say them for the first, and last, time. Even to repeat my own words is to say them as though I were another person in another time and place.

Because sexuality is so rich in the mystery of origin, it becomes a region of human action deeply shaped by resentment, where participants play out a manifold strategy of hostile encounters. The players in finite sexuality not only require the offended resistance of those who refuse to join them in their play, they require the resistance of those who do join them.

Even the word salary came from the Latin salarium, which meant the amount a soldier was paid to buy salt.

Whatever its origin, a belief in spirits seems to have been common to all the nations of the ancient world who have left us any record of themselves. Ghosts began to walk early, and are walking still, in spite of the shrill cock-crow of wir haben ja aufgeklärt.

So let's start at the very begining (a very good place to start...)

He knew, with unwavering certainty, that just like organic beings, artificial ones had the same capacity to bring goodness into the universe, as much as they could do the opposite. The nature of a sentient being's origin did not matter. It was the expression of that life that created light or darkness.

I am a Californian by birth and also, I have recently discovered, by nature. The last is something I admit only now, after the fact.

In the beginning the Universe was created.

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Do not seek after what you yearn for; seek the source of the yearning itself.

Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.

Night, o my mother, from whose womb I took my being.

In the end is my beginning… That's a quotation I've often heard people say.

Chicken or Egg, what came first on earth? What was the one that first took birth? If you get to the bottom of the root, you will realize the Divine Truth.

We were made at the motel.

Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.

It's not how far you've come that matters. It's where you've come from.

Whatever its origin, I'd like to see a cure for the Incredibly Shrinking Actress phenomena.

When we think of what is necessary for the phenomenon that we call life, we think of compartmentalization, keeping the molecules which are important for life in a membrane, isolated from the rest of the environment, but yet, in an environment in which they actually could originate together.

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

We're trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what it's of and who it's of.

No matter where I've been or where I go, a piece of Missouri is always with me because this is where I'm from and where I grew up.

I know that on trade and on enforcement and rules of origin, on autos, on issues like taxation, on outsourcing of jobs, I know that - and on Wall Street reform, Hillary Clinton's going to do the right thing.