Quotes About Origins

I see people around not wanting to acknowledge that they come from a small town, but it is like a jewel in my crown. I am proud to be a village girl.

If you look at history of athletics in the country almost all champions have hailed from the villages.

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

I would not apply the strategy of Calderon. I would look at the causes. Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.

You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.

Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.

I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

Virginia is a good start for Italy.

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

Yes, I live in Manhattan - and yes, I'm a cast member on 'The Real Housewives of New York' - but deep down, I'm still a southern gal from Virginia at heart.

There's virtually nothing made up in 'The Immigrant.' So much of the film came from somewhere in my family's past. All the details are from my own family.

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?" "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

When were these seeds of anger sown / And on what ground.

another divinity is present at this moment of origins, namely Tartarus.

theogony" and "cosmogony." What do they mean? In truth, these archaic Greek terms are quite simple, as well as interchangeable. The birth (-gony) of the world (cosmos) and the birth (-gony) of the gods (theo) are one and the same: the cosmogony, the birth of the cosmos, is also and reciprocally a theogony, a story about the origins of divinity.

The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

it is possible that the Irish word for 'I play the fox', sionnachuighim, is where the word 'shenanigans' comes from.

I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. "But," she continued, "don't forget where you came from.

Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

they couldn't abide the fact that the country was almost certainly founded by the Celts, who were just a little bit too close to the Irish for comfort.

A relationship does not start the day two people meet; it starts in the childhood of each partner. For it is long before they meet that the template of their relationship is established.

Wann bist du in Aus-Wisch angekommen? fragte Bruno. [...] Ich glaube, ich war schon immer hier sagte er schließlich leise. Bist du hier aufgewachsen? Nein, sagte Pavel und schüttelte den Kopf. Nein, das nicht.