Quotes About Origins

The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.

God made the integers all else is the work of man.

Forgetting the past is forgetting our roots and our basic structure.

I love being misunderstood, why? Cause I live in the Suburbs but I come from the hood.

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

A person who does not remember where he came from will never reach his destination.

My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

Before money, woman is the root of all evil because if woman didn't exist, money would have no meaning.

Actions require words to speak for them, explaining their origins and implications, or else they remain silent.

All created things are not independent, nor are they self-existent, and must ultimately be dependent on something which is independent, and therefore must still be constantly depending on this first cause. This is who we call God.

We descend from Jove; in ancestral Jove Troy's sons rejoice.

Let no one be proud of their birth. Know that we are all born from the same clay.

I think I was cold in the womb.

I am the son of the first fish who climbed ashore but the news has not yet reached my bowels.

My cradle was a shoe.

My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a single designer and not many designers?

The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it's a cool place.

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

All of European literature springs from a fight.

Despite their common origins, and the shared desire for an effective approach, Lauterpacht and Lemkin were sharply divided as to the solutions they proposed to a big question: How could the law help to prevent mass killing? Protect the individual, says Lauterpacht. Protect the group, says Lemkin.

evolutionary phenomena (of course including the phenomenon known as man) are processus, they can never be evaluated or even adequately described solely or mainly in terms of their origins: they must be defined by their direction

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites? I

Wonder (???????) is the only beginning of philosophy, and he was a good genealogist who made Iris the daughter of Thaumas