Quotes About Origins

Il mestiere di chimico (fortificato, nel mio caso, dall'esperienza di Auschwitz) insegna a superare, anzi ad ignorare, certi ribrezzi, che non hanno nulla di necessario né di congenito: la materia è materia, né nobile né vile, infinitamente trasformabile, e non importa affatto quale sia la sua origine prossima.

And rumors, well, they're strange creatures with a will of their own: the more colorful they grow, the more their true origins fade. By

My plan was to drive to Peptoe, Arizona, and track down the three men who found me in a bassinet

In English, the word "left" derives from the Anglo-Saxon lyft, which means "weak" or "useless.

My first point seems overwhelmingly simple: that the accidents of birth and geography determine to a very large extent to what faith we belong.

My dad's Australian.

The way I dress, I dress totally different than I did when I was in college. I have to - try to - look professional. You change a lot when you are in the NBA, but I know where I came from.

My mam is Dutch but I'm green.

My family's from Eastern Europe.

I want to know what my food has been eating.

I am 3.8 percent Neanderthal. One of my ancestors mated with a Neanderthal, and I am not embarrassed by that.

When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

It's really hard to escape where you were brought up. Not that I would ever want to escape it.

If we follow the ancestral line of our umbilical cord from our mother, to her mother's mother, her mother's mother's mother, and so on, eventually we will reach our primal mother—the one we all share.

Ideographically the Chinese represent wife by a woman holding a broom—certainly not to brandish it offensively or defensively against her conjugal ally, neither for witchcraft, but for the more harmless uses for which the besom was first invented—the idea involved being thus not less homely than the etymological derivation of the English wife (weaver) and daughter (duhitar, milkmaid).

Moving from phonetics to etymology, 'vagina' originates from a word meaning sheath for a sword. Ain't got no vagina.

But, here is a second glitch. Insofar as is yet known, Cro-Magnon "appeared" intact and complete on the scene without any so far discoverable link to biological structures thought to be Mankind's evolutional predecessors.

the soul concept is derived not from Latin but from early Old Nordic and Old Germanic sources. However, the terms "animate" and

If so, then this definition stands as one of the earliest blueprints, in English, for fundamental reality-box making.

Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more creditbility if they had their origins in the soul & spirit. If people read the words of the prophets with closer attention, they would find the keys to life. -Marc Chagall

You know why they call it the Garden State, don't you? It's like the Garden of Eden-- everyone is from there originally, but no one you meet actually lives there anymore.

Free schools were an invention of the Devil or the Yankees, which amounted to practically the same thing.

Perhaps the Negro musicians had not been able to give enough because they were inhibited by her Southern-supremacy origins.