Quotes About Origins

I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey.

I feel very much rooted in being Egyptian, and I also feel very rooted in being a guy from New Jersey.

I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.

The Clash will always be from London, and we will always be from New Jersey. But New Jersey doesn't create us.

I always cherish my ancestors, my grandpa, great-grandpa, what they did for us, especially my dad who moved from Bosnia. He started a new life in Slovenia so basically I grew up there.

I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia.

I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.

My friends in Kennington always ask me, 'can I have a shirt for my little brother or cousin,' and I always send them shirts. I will never forget where I have come from, because I know what it is like growing up in that area, and it is not nice.

I came from Brooklyn. My nickname was Moochie.

When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa, but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique.

My mom knew we were going to call me Kiki by birth. I think she had the nickname before she had my name, and she then found the name that would allow that.

My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

It was so interesting to discover Nixon was a Californian. I always think Nixon should come from a cold place.

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.

I was always - and I have no idea where it came from - a confident boy. And when I look at how I've lived my life that's how I've lived it.

Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started.

it is the emptiness of the bowl that creates the bowl

there isn't a full consensus among experts. But strip away a few more skins from the onion of time and, by 3,400 million years ago

Our ancestors pay the price for who we are

The creation of fire was, arguably, the first magickal act of man. Bloodstone—fire and blood.

In fact, the ripples are so exact (down to one part in one hundred thousand) that Smoot called them the "machining marks from the creation of the universe" and the "fingerprints of the maker."15

This expanding universe is the second line of scientific evidence that the universe had a beginning.

you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.

Omnium Rerum Principia Parva Sunt – 'The beginnings of all things are small