Quotes About Origin

Light will be thrown on the origin of men and his history.

FROM THE point of view of modern intellectual life and culture, On the Origin of Species is one of the most important scientific books of all time.

revert to the wild aboriginal stock.

where the Coffins had lived ever since Noah's flood (if, indeed, they had not merely returned thither after that temporary displacement)

I have no doubt that my mother's pregnancy with me was an accident. Mostly because on several occasions, she told me I was an accident.

Kobe beef is not named after Kobe Bryant. Do not make this mistake.

Indeed, the very word "zero" has Indian origins: The Indian word for zero was sunya, meaning "empty," which the Arabs turned into sifr. Western scholars Latinized this into zephirus, the root of our zero.

So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.

You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church.

I'm the mold that grunge was grown in.

Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?

Authenticity is the most important thing. You have to know where it all comes from, study who pioneered it.

William Wordsworth

Finally, only thirty or forty million years before, our earliest ancestors had crawled out of the primeval slime; and then, no doubt, finding the change unpleasant, crawled back in again.

beginning at the moment that it broke out

The Levant, the land to the east of the Mediterranean, is almost without doubt the region in which the 'Semitic' family of tongues originated, and Arabic has preserved, pristine, many of the earliest features of those tongues.

Every vegetable, every bit of protein on the list had a provenance more complex than a minor Rembrandt.

Yes, but in spite of such a shady origin, it's really quite good," Luke told him. "It's called hot chocolate.

David made a small head gesture indicative of doubt. 'Look at it this way,' he said. 'They're all male figures, all of Italian origin. Maybe standing about all day being admired is what they like doing best.

How old are you, Freddie?" "Who knows? They made dirt in the morning and me that afternoon.

I am determined to de-fang cheap racism, annihilate and discredit the routine, easy, available color fetish, which is reminiscent of slavery itself (The Origin of Others, 53).

Watches have watch makers, paintings have painters, designs have designers, and creation has a creator

Ymir was a frost giant; he was evil from the first. While he slept, he began to sweat. A man and woman grew out of the ooze under his left armpit, and one of his legs fathered a son on the other leg.

Have you always been so large? (Nora) Aye. I came from my mother's womb at full height. The shock of it almost killed her. (Ewan)