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Quotes About Origins

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.
~ Martin Scorsese
When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history.
~ Rusty Schweickart
When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.
~ Walter Kaufmann
I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.
~ Freida Pinto
My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.
~ Gad Elmaleh
I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.
~ Bruce Oldfield
I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.
~ Hendrik Poinar
When we look for the origins of all humanity today, let's not just look at Europe, because I think Africa was the cradle, the crucible that created us as Homo sapiens.
~ Donald Johanson
It's difficult for me to imagine a circumstance in which you're disguising your origins in which someone doesn't get hurt.
~ Jess Row
I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.
~ Derek Walcott
It just so happened that the sound I've developed has the Memphis origins to it that made Drake wanted to work with it.
~ Tay Keith
I'm so biased to this issue of the origins of life and the limits of life.
~ Ellen Stofan
A novel means a new way of doing a story. If you go back the origins of a novel, 'Clarissa' - that's not a novel; it's just a bunch of letters. But it isn't! Because it's organised in a particular way! A novel is what you make of it.
~ Romesh Gunesekera
'I am not adopted; I have mysterious origins.' I have said that sentence many times in the course of my life as an adopted person.
~ Ellen Ullman
I was not born in Telangana but my origins are in Telangana. My parents Varalaxmi and Srinivas Prasad hailed from Ramannagudem.
~ Vijayashanti
My origins are I was a massive fan of Johan Cruyff, massive fan of that Ajax team, and my father was. That sort-of led me to look at the aesthetics of football, rather than just the end result.
~ Angelos Postecoglou
I'm so appreciative of Orlando. I am Orlando. Orlando made me. So when people link my name, they link my name to Orlando and nowhere else. I'll always be indebted to Orlando for that and grateful at the same time.
~ Penny Hardaway
Other countries have been founded by 'accidents of force.' America is a creation of thought.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
~ Carly Fiorina
So from an angry lawman's mouth, the Outlaw Motorcyclists were born.
~ Chuck Zito
The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.
~ Dave Mustaine
I don't think I'm over-the-top cocky, I'm just proud of where I came from.
~ Baker Mayfield
Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.
~ John Fogerty
In the Arab world, at any rate, to doubt the traditional account of Islam's origins has been to risk death threats, prosecution for apostasy, or even defenestration.61
~ Tom Holland