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Quotes About Origin

The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.
~ Clarence Day
In my beginning is my end.
~ T. S. Eliot
Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler, slower pace - it lends perspective.
~ Paul Anka
There is one basic cause of all effects.
~ Giordano Bruno
Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city.
~ Anonymous
I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.
~ Olga Broumas
There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
~ John Lyly
The important thing is somehow to begin.
~ Henry Moore
Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. I suppose it is a philanthropic movement to try to reverse the process.
~ Clara Barton
A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.
~ Woodrow Wilson
With him for a sire, and her for a dam What should I be, but just what I am?
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.
~ Matt Drudge
I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.
~ Art Blakey
Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.
~ Nikola Tesla
The only way that we can disincentivize Central American immigrants from illegally entering our country is if we change our policies, tweak our laws, cut the bureaucratic red tape and immediately send them back to their countries of origin. Until then, this self-imposed crisis will continue to worsen.
~ Paul Gosar
If you do not know where the mushroom products you are consuming are grown, think twice before eating them.
~ Paul Stamets
Of all the things we've learned, we still haven't learned where did this desire to want to know come from?
~ Jane Wagner
The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits
~ H. L. Mencken
The mystery of free will versus predestination. You're going to tie yourself up with that one, Mona. Either God is in charge or He's not. We can go round and round about the origin of evil, but the buck stops at God. The question isn't who causes something to happen, but rather, whether you see the outcome with His eyes or yours. Whether or not you trust He's got it all in His hands.
~ Susan May Warren
Everyone is calling it the Spanish flu, even though it didn't originate in Spain. No one is sure where it came from. Spain has been the first to speak openly about it in its newspapers.
~ Susan Meissner
Where did they get those screams, Katniss?
~ Suzanne Collins
We will pay any price that we are instructed to. But the money has to come from somewhere.
~ Jerry Kramer