Quotes About Origin

Home is where one starts from.

the causes and conditions that produce that phenomenon contain the seed for its destruction.

The Buddha uses the framework of the four noble truths to formulate this insight: the first truth, the truth of suffering, is the illness. The second truth, the truth of the origin of suffering, refers to the cause of the illness. The third truth, the truth of cessation, is the understanding that a complete cure is possible. And the fourth truth, the truth of the path that leads to cessation, is the cure.

Over there is like here, neither better or worse. But I am from here, just as the date palm standing in the courtyard of our house has grown in our house and not in anyone else's.

if a man wishes to eat chicken, do you think he would wish to consume a chicken that has recently been, as you tell me, 'ranging free'? Some wild capon, capering about over hill and dale, wholly unsupervised? No! I think not, Mrs. Purvis! If Ambrose Congreve is to eat chicken, he bloody well wants to know where his chicken has been! Every minute of every day!

But the moment of creation is where all causal chains end; inference can lead us back to this moment and no further.

The universe began as an enormous breath being held. Who knows why, but whatever the reason, I am glad that it did, because I owe my existence to that fact.

Given this long and murky lineage, any inquiry into the origin of hunting songs is tantamount to a search for the birth of music itself.

Dogs: A New Understanding of Canine Origin,

My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.

The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.

Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.'

Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?

Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being? There's a real lack of evidence from change from actual species to a different type of species.

People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way to a time of science.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

Man comes not from an egg but from an animalcule that is found in male sperm.

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

Luck is a word devoid of sense nothing can exist without a cause.

God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.

Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.

When the first man created Himself, He was the light of the circle. Then He willed the sun into being It was 6 trillion years between the making of the sun and the creation of man.

None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.

I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday.