Quotes About Origin

So it is also that in the act of knowing, to the extent that we know something truly, we know it as created, that is, as having its origin and its sustaining existence in God. 7 To claim to know something while thinking it to be independent of God (or to deny that there is a God) is to fail to know it for what it really is. Whatever it is, it is created and sustained by God at every moment.

Within all of us is a varying amount of space lint and star dust, the residue from our creation. Most are too busy to notice it, and it is stronger in some than others. It is strongest in those of us who fly and is responsible for an unconscious, subtle desire to slip into some wings and try for the elusive boundaries of our origin.

He holds me by the hair, making me look into eyes that saw the birth of the world.", FADE by Kailin Gow

I create each character as an individual, coming from a certain place, sounding a certain way, having been introduced to things a certain way.

What is very interesting when talking about electronic music is that - I would say that rock and roll is called the ethnic music born in America that invaded the world. Electronic music is certainly kind of ethnic music born in countries like Germany and France that has invaded the world.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

My Irish identity is important as it's a part of who I am.

We should not ignore or isolate our roots, no matter where we stay.

I think it's important for children to know where their food comes from and how much work it takes to produce the items we eat in our home.

Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.

London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.

I sound like Joe Pesci and Frankenstein had a baby.

I was born at St. John's, where they lived for a short time.

Time, which is the author of authors.

For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.

The concern over the origin of institutions dovetailed with a second preoccupation, which was the real-world problems of weak and failed states.

Does a 'beefsteak' derive it's terminology name from the habit of complaining too often?

The priests received special treatment, for the last nine days of the festival of Mars were meant to be fast-days except for priests; the breaking of the fast on 25 March is thought by some scholars to be the origin of Mardi Gras, instead of the 'fat Tuesday' before Christian Lent.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

I believe in the Big Bang. I just know who banged it.

It would be agreeable to conclude this book with a cheery fanfare about science closing in, slowly but surely, on the ultimate mystery; but the time for rosy rhetoric is not yet at hand. The orign of life appear to me as incomprehensible as ever, a matter for wonder but not for explication.

Life cannot have had a random beginning ... The trouble is that there are about 2000 enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10^40,000, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup.

The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.