Quotes About Origin

We spend a lifetime undoing the damage caused by cruelty, neglect, and all manner of lovelessness experienced in our families of origin and in relationships where we simply where we simply did not know what to do.

unavoidable violence of writing and its origin as a tool for the maintenance of the repressive hierarchies of early states.

The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

There is no reason why the world could not have come into being without a cause; nor, on the other hand, is there any reason why it should not have always existed. There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

The argument is really no better than that. There is no reason why the world could not have come into being without a cause; nor, on the other hand, is there any reason why it should not have always existed. There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

The energy used in thinking seems to have a chemical origin; for instance, a deficiency of iodine will turn a clever man into an idiot.

It was a world as old as Time, but as new as Creation's hour had left it.

Did you know that the origin of the word gossip in English is god-sibling? It's the talk between people who are godparents to the same child, people who have a legitimate loving interest in the person they talk about. It's talk that weaves a net of support and connection beneath the people you want to protect.

The English word human literally means "a creature of earth," from the word humus, or ground.[1] The humble word humble comes from the same origin and means "lowly, near the ground."[2] God appointed gravity to keep us there.

When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars. John 8:44

Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.

Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.

When people ask me where I am from, with artificial simplicity, they don't understand how convoluted an answer it may sound.

The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her.

Hooker was falsely thought to be the origin of the word for "prostitute," because his camp was so rowdy.

With her bad luck, scruffy passengers and drunken sailing, the Mayflower is still our glorious origin myth.

Everything has a beginning, or needs one, and if the beginning's identifiable but not dramatic enough, it needs to be deidentified—located elsewhere.

But the Septuagint translated ason as exeikonismenon, meaning a fetus already "fully formed.

Speech has, indeed, its origin in social conformity.

Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.

The term incense now refers to any material used to produce a fragrant aroma when burned, but it originally referred specifically to gum resins exuded by Boswellia trees. As the word began to be used more generally, these gum resins became known as frankincense, meaning true (frank) incense.

One who is happy being a cosmopolitan shelters a shattered origin in the night of his wandering.

I'm from a small farm town in Indiana!