Quotes About Origin

I'm a chef, so I really like knowing where my food is coming from.

When I met Dre, N.W.A. didn't exist, nor did Michel'le. And I think we had a chemistry.

Nobody chooses where they're born. And, of course, I would know.

I come from Cincinnati.

Where I came from had a lot of friends. A big social circle.

I love a great myth. I love a superhero origin story.

It does feel like we get to just carte blanche create a superhero origin story for 2021, for this day and age, that is told through a distinctly Asian American lens.

Most superheroes, when you look at origin stories - before they invent their costume, they just go with what's around.

I grew up very inspired by 'Superman One' and by kind of the promise of the genre of what a superhero origin story can do.

As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.

Before we understood that houses shift just over time because the ground is moving, the creaks in a house were assumed to be apparitions, or ghosts. Before we understood that we live on a planet, and there are others, the only answers to where we came from had to be something supernatural.

It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.

Il vuoto è l'inizio di tutte le cose.

What lasts is what you start with. – CHARLES WRIGHT from A Journal of Southern Rivers

It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.

I'm a native son, born in Santa Rosa.

Tell them this: somehow our two worlds stand linked again by some dark power of Tsurani origin. It moves against the Kingdom. It is power beyond human understanding, perhaps power to challenge the gods themselves.

In fact, the Quran proposes the unprecedented notion that all revealed scriptures are derived from a single concealed book in heaven called the Umm al-Kitab, or "Mother of Books" (13:39).

The origin of the religious impulse, in other words, is not rooted in our quest for meaning or our fear of the unknown. It is not born of our involuntary reactions to the natural world. It is not an accidental consequence of the complex workings of our brains. It is the result of something far more primal and difficult to explain: our ingrained, intuitive, and wholly experiential belief that we are, whatever else we are, embodied souls.

I don't know where ideas come from. They come from outer space or God, if you like, or from my subconscious mind. But I never go ou self-consciously looking for a story.

Blaze was stumped for a moment. Then he blurted, "George." "Lovely name! From the Greek. It means, 'to work the earth.'

In the beginning was simplicity.

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

Watson retorted: 'Well I don't think we're for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose. But I'm anticipating having a good lunch.' We did have a good lunch, too.