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Quotes About Origin

Science is uneasy with beginnings. Mythology is concerned above all with what happened "in the beginning". Its signature is "Once upon a time".
~ Dudley Young
The first man is of the earth, earthy.
~ Bible
Sunrise: day's great progenitor.
~ Emily Dickinson
The mother of all living.
~ Bible
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
~ Plautus
Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Every why hath a wherefore.
~ William Shakespeare
Two-parent sex appeared on the scene about 500,000,000 years ago.
~ Mark Jerome Walters
Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called woman.
~ Bible
Thy wish was father to that thought.
~ William Shakespeare
kad bi igra?i ispitivali porijeklo sva?ijeg novca, ne bi se igra mogla nikad ni sastaviti.
~ Ivo Andri?
Sometimes people need to go back to the beginning. To where everything started.
~ J.R. Ward
That looks like a tree, let's call it a tree,' said Coyote to Earthmaker at the beginning, and they walked around the rootdrinker patting their bellies.
~ Jack Kerouac
Oh what was the racket that backeted and smashed in raging might, to make this oil-puddle world?--
~ Jack Kerouac
the cause of death is birth or procreation
~ Jack Kerouac
He had discovered, in the course of his reading, two schools of fiction. One treated of man as a god, ignoring his earthly origin; the other treated of man as a clod, ignoring his heavensent dreams and divine possibilities.
~ Jack London
The UK has no input in Afrobeat. Let me make myself very clear. The UK has no influence in the creation or naming or anything that has to do with Afrobeat' roots or beginnings.
~ Burna Boy
We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.
~ Daniel Dennett
We are reaching a stage where the source of food has become markets and supermarkets. On a sub-conscious level, we are becoming unaware of the original source, which is land.
~ Ranveer Brar
Events of human origin are uncertain, but all is regulated and governed by the incalculable power of God, inspiring us not through drunken fury nor by frantic movement, but through the influences of the stars.
~ Nostradamus
The smuggling and distribution of misbranded drugs and medical devices of uncertain foreign origin has the potential for serious harm to patients.
~ Dana Boente
The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
~ George Meredith
Ideas are the source of all things
~ Plato
Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.
~ Sydney J. Harris