Quotes About Origins

As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: "We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else takes it for granted that they are descended from gods." —

Over a billion people out there, worshipping these writings, accepting every word as God's own wisdom, slaughtering each other over them, and all of it without having the vaguest notion of where these scriptures really come from.

My full name is Ross Fleming Butler; it's very British-Irish.

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966.

Well, my parents live in Cambridge, Maryland.

Remember where you came from.

If God used evolution, God came from an ape.

I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.

It was important for me to understand who I am and where I came from. To get a hold on why I do certain things.

I was born and raised in Charleston, SC.

I'm from Chicago and it's a huge influence on me.

I'm from the Southside of Chicago.

Everything in adulthood can be traced back to childhood.

I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.

What dominates my life isn't the fact that I started off doing theatre. It's probably to do with Christianity, my race, the class I was born into. These are the things that make my work. They make who I am as well.

I don't think anything predated Christians.

I am still an Indonesian citizen.

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.

Basically, I come from other planet. Like Superman, from Krypton. I don't show my power because I want to play basketball.

Marystown, in Newfoundland, it's where began for me. It's where most of my family still lives and where a lot of my supporters are from.

I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.

I grew up in Stoneham, a little suburb of Boston. It's pronounced 'Stone 'em' because Massachusetts doesn't bend to the will of 'how letters are supposed to be said.'