Quotes About Origins

A million coincidences had to occur in order for you to exist

It took me a long time to see what was happening to me then. I have known no sudden revelations. No stroke of light has ever knocked me blind to the ground. But I know now that even then, in my hopelessness and sorrow, I began a motion of the heart toward my origins. Far from rising above them, I was longing to sink into them until I would know the fundamental things. I needed to know the original first chapter of the world.

The farther back we trace the Egyptian language the more affinities it reveals with the Semitic tongues of the Near East.

Science gives man ever greater powers but less significance. It gives him better tools with less purposes. It is silent on origins, values, and ultimate aims. It gives life and history no meaning or worth that is not canceled by time and death.

I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.

in a few thousand years, I who regard you will also have sprung from the loins of African kings.

He is both heir and prototype simultaneously of all the geography and climate and biology which sired old Carothers and all the rest of us and our kind, myriad, countless, faceless, even nameless now except himself who fathered himself, intact and complete, contemptuous, as old Carothers must have been, of all blood black white yellow or red, including his own.

I dislike calling them stubs," Lowbeer said. "They're short because we've only just initiated them, by reaching into the past and making that first contact. We should call them branches, as they literally are.

This was long after hairdressers; in truth, ever since there have been women, there have been hairdressers, Adam being the first, though the King James scholars do their very best to muddy this point.)

This man was Anton Drexler, a locksmith by trade, who may be said to have been the actual founder of National Socialism.

He didn't know what if anything it was his mother got from his father's company.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

In other words, companies aren't born in garages. Companies are born in companies. This

Every city began as a campsite

My birth mother brought me into this world, but it was my adoptive parents who gave me life.

The ultimate goal of this book is to present fragments from an epic about an animal that evolved, started talking, started talking about the fact that it was talking, and then paused briefly before asking itself how it started talking in the first place.

This is because our personal genetic tree is not equivalent to our genealogical tree, which is to say that not every one of our direct ancestors has contributed to our genome.

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

I argue that although the term Shinto scarcely appears, we can identify Shinto's institutional origins in the late seventh- and early eighth-century coordination of Kami worship, regarded as embodying indigenous tradition, by a government ministry following legal mandates.

Wild things are made from human histories.

Knots were probably the earliest spells.

I've come to think that there's an age beyond which it is impossible to lift a child from the pervading marinade of an original country, pat them down with a paper napkin and then deep-fry them in another country, another language like hot oil scalding the first language away.

Not all of us have that luxury, of a past. My history doesn't offer me much in that respect.

Qué grandes son las cosas en los comienzos! Nunca en los principios hubo pequeñeces...