Quotes About Origin

I never wanted to change countries; it's something that is part of me.

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

Was it probably true that reasoning beings were equal? It seemed more like a belief than a fact, even if I agreed with it. If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitably end up at point of illogic, an article of faith?

If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitable end up at a point of illogic, an article of faith? Even an indisputable fact must be chosen as the place to start reasoning, given weight by a mind that believed in its worth.

Sometimes going back to the beginning is the only way.

If your parents died suddenly, Sandro understood, your home was wherever you were, and now you were from nowhere. Your parents were your provenance. Dead, you had no provenance.

But never had come first.

God went forth to create the world, and he took his dog with him. - Kato Indian creation story

....whether your jewel was got from the mine or from an auctioneer.

How is breath control the means for mind control? M: There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control, because the mind, like breath, is a part of air, because the nature of mobility is common to both, because the place of origin is the same for both, and because when one of them is controlled the other gets controlled.

Ramana Maharshi's advice on depression) This depression must be traced to its origin. The origin is the wrong identification of the body with the Self. The disease is not of the Self. It is of the body. But the body does not come and tell you that it is possessed by the disease. It is you who say so. Why? Because you have wrongly identified yourself with the body. The body itself is a thought. Be as you really are. There is no reason to be depressed. (p. 360)

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.

The only reason - the only need - to believe in God is to try and explain where this all came from....Where we came from. Where we're headed. But it doesn't work. If there was a creator, a designed who created all this, well then there had to be a creator to create that creator, right? And one to create him. And so on.

When people ask where I'm from, I tell them Washington, because that's where I feel the most comforted by the people.

I am from Pomona, California. I was born in Los Angeles.

My mom has been calling me Peep my whole life. That's how I got the name.

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

I'm from Cameroon, Central Africa.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

I don't have a birth certificate.

Where I am from, being able to play in the Champions League is an achievement in itself.

Under Ceta the E.U. checks products coming from Canada to ensure they do not originate in any other country - because if they did, they would be subject to E.U. tariffs. The same would happen if the U.K. had a Canada-style deal with the E.U.