Quotes About Origins

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

I am enceinte, gravid, pregnant, in pup, call it what you will. No doubt there are as many names for the production of a child as for the act which initiates it.

In Germany they had no kings. They developed them in Britain from leaders who claimed descent from the ancient gods.

Great quarrels, it has been well said, arise from small occasions but seldom from small causes.

As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism developed from Fascism.

I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other. I could have had different ancestors, after all. I could have fluttered from another nest or crawled bescaled from under another tree. Nature's wardrobe holds a fair supply of costumes: spider, seagull, field mouse. Each fits perfectly right off and is dutifully worn into shreds.

We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more-there is no greater relationship. Long before Darwin, a priest lucid in his madness encountered four chimpanzees on a forlorn island in Africa and hit upon a great truth: We are risen apes, not fallen angels.

He was born Michael Randall Hickman,

Without these supernova explosions, there are no mist-covered swamps, computer chips, trilobites, Mozart or the tears of a little girl. Without exploding stars, perhaps there could be a heaven, but there is certainly no Earth.

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

In essence our failure was a vivid demonstration, which I have never forgotten, that theories, however plausible and "obviously" valid, can be destroyed totally by the obstinate facts of the real world. Davis had brought us an unbeatable scheme for raising cattle profitably. The cattle had a different scheme. No doubt my later deep skepticism of the a priorism of mainstream economics had some of its origins in this experience.

173Augustine speaks of a Christianity which has existed since the beginning of the human race,

When we go back as far as possible to the origins we find a human nature which already contains everything which it later on produces out of itself.

Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America.

They say Cain invented cities. And if it was not he, it was someone else fond of murder.

Family name and paternity are two different things, but but one must start somewhere.

They say that Cain invented cities. And if it was not he, it was someone else fond of murder.

But we yearn for our origins; we yearn for an innocent terrain.

Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.

Nu pricep cum se poate dispre?ui originea unui popor, indiferent dac? e cel care l-a inventat pe Dumnezeu sau cel care a inventat cifrele!

Somewhere along the line, nucleotides were edged apart to let new ones in; maybe viruses moved in, carrying along bits of other, foreign genomes; radiation from the sun or from outer space caused tiny cracks in the molecule, and humanity was conceived." – Lewis Thomas

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

Even today, the contours of what is often referred to as the "Article III jurisdiction" of the federal courts remain contested. The important points here are simply these: that questions concerning the federal courts' jurisdiction are anchored deeply in the nation's constitutional origins, and that the Supreme Court itself has provided the answers.

Meet Madeleine Cahill," he said. "Founder of the Madrigal line.