Quotes About Origins

In the beginning said a Persian poet - Allah took a rose a lily a dove a serpent a little honey a Dead Sea apple and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram - it was a woman.

Giger's work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.

Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk. The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work.

Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.

I'm from so far back in the sticks that they had to pump the light in there.

Stole my first name from 'Evening in Paris' and the second from Elizabeth Arden.

It wasn't really me who invented rap. I stole the idea from Aristide Bruant.

Hoosier born and bred, he claimed, from an old South Bend family that made its old money in the oil business. Or maybe it was coal. Or banking.

The basis for the energy drink Red Bull came from a tonic in Thailand, and the Smurfs were brought from Belgium. Pokémon came from the land of Honda. The band KISS made millions in record and concert sales, but the real profit has been in licensing—granting others the right to produce hundreds of products with their name and image in exchange for a percentage of sales.

Everyone who's born has come from the sea. Your mother's womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses lie in the sea before they're born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean — walking on the land.

The earth is our birthplace, yet for millions of us, it feels strangely foreign.

Che errore è stato allontanarsi dalla natura! Nella sua varietà, nella sua bellezza, nella sua crudeltà, nella sua infinita, ineguagliabile grandezza c'è tutto il senso della vita. Se mai vi viene a mancare, come mi stava succedendo, basta tornare qui, alla natura, alle origini di tutto, all'albero da cui siamo saltati giù avant'ieri, uomini miei vestiti di boria e di gessato grigio.

It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because I'm obviously not African, but it was my home.

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

When people ask me where I'm from I say I'm from Oklahoma.

We hear stories from our parents and our grandparents about what life was like in the old country or wherever they came from. They are biblical. They are truth. There could be no alternate history.

African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.

Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.

People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects.

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

Los ingleses tienen 3 cosas de las que mostrarse orgullosos: El té, el whisky y un escritor como yo. Pero resulta que el té es chino; el whisky, escocés; y yo soy irlandés.

Thence are we a hardy generation, and able to endure fatigue, and we give proofs from what original we are sprung.

Most accounts of the origins of religion emphasize one of the following suggestions: human minds demand explanations, human hearts seek comfort, human society requires order, human intellect is illusionprone.