Quotes About Origin

Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.

An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything.

My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

I never intended to be a defense contractor in the first place.

I was born in Belgium but I never intended to play for Belgium. I never thought about that.

a small stream...sings a carefree song as it runs by your house. It is so nonthreatening that you can sit by it, look at your reflection in the water, and even wash your hands in it. It is yours, your personal stream. Yet you know that it has originated in the sea and is on its way back to where it has come from. When passing by your house, however, it is yours. You can say it is a personal moment you have torn out of eternity to keep in your pocket for yourself.

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

homens sao da terra, e nao do mar

Los fundadores, ya se sabe, eran campesinos: gentecita humilde que traía del campo sus costumbres, como rezar el rosario, beber aguardiente, robarle al vecino y matarse por chichiguas con el prójimo en peleas a machete. ¿Qué podía nacer de semejante esplendor humano? Más. Y más y más y más.

En 1875 Oscar Hertwig descubrió la fecundación del óvulo por el espermatozoide. Entonces empezamos a saber de dónde veníamos. Ni Sócrates, ni Platón, ni Aristóteles, ni Newton, ni Descartes, ni Kant, ni Mozart, ni Napoleón lo supieron: vivieron y murieron como los santos inocentes, sin saber.

Pero las religiones de Cristo y de Mahoma no surgieron de la nada: provienen de la de Yavé, el Dios local de los judíos que fue el que creó el mundo en seis días. Y claro, con semejantes prisas así le quedó: un engendro chapucero.

respecto al origen del mundo, si es que lo tuvo, no nos queda más remedio que aceptar que nunca sabremos cómo ocurrió y que Dios es una explicación necia que no explica nada pues es tan difícil imaginar la eternidad suya como la de la materia. Dios es la vuelta del bobo: lo postulamos para entender cuanto no entendemos, pero sin entenderlo a Él.

I have it on good authority that I was born in Utah.

Man can only derive life and enjoyment from a perpetual search and appropriation; that is, from a perpetual application of his faculties to objects, or from labor. This is the origin of property. But also he may live and enjoy, by seizing and appropriating the productions of the faculties of his fellow men. This is the origin of plunder.

But yet he may live and enjoy, by seizing and appropriating the productions of the faculties of his fellow men. This is the origin of plunder. Now

Today . . . when Satan worship is increasing at an alarming rate, we had better be aware of him, his origin, his aims, his abilities, and his limitations.

Have we just been placed here by some unknown creator or force without any clue as to where we came from, why we are here, and where we are going? The answer is "no." We do have a code. We do have a key . . . the Bible.

Before Satan there was no sin, and before sin there was no pain.

The [Bible's] message is concerned with earth dwellers, their origin, the reason for their existence, the cause of their misery, and the plan of redemption for a fallen race.

Things are always at their best in their beginning.

The Lake is young as natural lakes go, no more than four thousand years old, and it is simpler to say what did not form it than to say what did.

That we have iodine in our thyroid glands proves that our bodies were fashioned from supernova material.