Quotes About Origins

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.

Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.

The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.

English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

I knew that coming from a family with an unhealthy social origins, things would be harder for me. Nonetheless, in my heart, hope never died. However, over time, I had learned that trying never died either. Trying was one thing I always had to do more than others, because, in the self-proclaimed society of equals, we were made to be less equal than many of the families around us.

We are all descended from monsters.

Concepts such as age, place of birth and parentage can only have meaning within the context of personal history.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

All Bibles are man-made.

I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants.

I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.

I'm from just outside London, near Reading.

I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.

I was born in Japan, and then we went to Korea, and I was raised in Nebraska.

I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

I never forget where I come from. It means everything.

I am proud to be Pinoy and I never forget where I came from.

It's definitely important to never forget where you're coming from, where you were born and raised.

I definitely relate to any kid who has lived without running water or electricity or having to be the smelly kid going to school because you don't have the resources. It's hard. I really relate to them and I want to help them as much as possible. It's a unique situation that you'll never forget where you came from.

I'll never forget where I come from. Especially my humble beginnings.

I'm a kid from New Hampshire who's pretty normal.