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Quotes About Origin

Can't a person be born where they want to be born?
~ James Whistler
I'm a sociable person. I want people to know where the f - I came from.
~ Obie Trice
At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.
~ Kevin Spacey
With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from.
~ Jordan Peele
Then we're all restless, Withal, because at the very heart, none of us know where we came from. Or where we're going.
~ Steven Erikson
People need to know where they came from, Sand. Especially if they've lived generations not knowing.
~ Steven Erikson
There are beliefs that constitute the official religion of a nation, but those beliefs and that religion are in truth little more than the thinnest gold hammered on far older bones. No nation is singular, or exclusive—rather, it should not be, for its own good. There is much danger in asserting for oneself a claim to purity; whether of blood or of origin. Few may acknowledge it, but Lether is far richer for its devouring minorities, provided that digestion remains eternally incomplete.
~ Steven Erikson
If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
~ Steven Wright
How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?
~ Steven Wright
The woman's voice seemed to be all around her, and did not originate from any particular area.
~ Storm Constantine
You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Most people had a history in this region, but not my parents, and my early, defining relationship to my environment was a feeling of being not from here, even though I had never lived in any other place.
~ Susan Burton
I think things like 'farm to table' are misleading. I think sometimes that becomes a pedestal or a soap box to get people into your restaurant but is not... it's almost empty in a way. I mean, my food comes from a farm, and I serve it on a table.
~ Wylie Dufresne
I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.
~ Peter Shaffer
Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection.
~ Francis Collins
Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.
~ Richard Dawkins
Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It is like a crime that has not been solved. There is an answer, even if police do not know it.
~ Jostein Gaarder
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
~ Victor Francis Hess
Evolution is the idea some people have to explain life without God.
~ Ken Ham
Everything that's wrong in Washington had to start someplace.
~ Amy McGrath
I want to let everybody know that I'm from there, and country is Tuskegee. Or should I say rather, my country is Tuskegee. I was born and raised there, it's not just someplace I passed through one day.
~ Lionel Richie
Revealing of origin, evidence the existence of hidden pearls in mind which is addicted to imagine and thought as well.
~ Seema Gupta
Metallurgy as such, in Central and South America, is probably Asiatic in origin. Most recent researches tend to relate it to the South Chinese Culture of the Chou epoch (middle and late eight to fourth centuries B.C.) That would make it more or less of Danubian origin, for it was Danubian metallurgy, which in the ninth to eighth centuries B.C. arrived via the Caucasus in China.
~ Mircea Eliade
There are at least four Sumerian narratives that explain the origin of man. They are so different that we must assume a plurality of traditions. One myth relates that the first human beings sprouted from the ground like the plants. According to another version, man was fashioned from clay by certain divine artisans; then the goddess Nammu modeled a heart for him, and En-ki gave him life.
~ Mircea Eliade