Quotes About Origins

It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

I've always been excited to know how we got here.

'Concierge' comes from the Latin for 'slave.'

I don't come from a creative background. I don't know anyone in my family who is a musician or actor or singer. It's a lot of teachers, lawyers. Professional stuff like that.

I was born in Leeds, grew up in Bridlington.

I'm just a little kid from Akron.

I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.

I'm from New York. I was born in Long Island.

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.

I am from Los Angeles, and my parents are from Los Angeles.

It is important to me that I was not raised in Los Angeles.

And I think it's important to remain loyal to your home country, from where you started.

I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.

I was born in Manchester, England.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

The sea is a spirit level, a pantry, a playground, a mansion rowdy with life, a majestic reminder of our origins, another kind of body (a body of water), and female because of her monthly tides. But her bones are growing brittle, her brine turning ever more acidic from all the CO2 we've slathered into the air and all the fertilizer runoff from our fields.

the wealth they had accumulated from retail needed to hide its origins, for it is well known that the purity of gold increases the further removed it is from labor.

Do you mean to tell me, Aurelius, that you are a foundling?" "Yes. That is the word for what I am. A foundling.

We're all just a range of shades of brown, sometimes with a little bit of other colors mixed in, like pink and red. But people are funny about stuff like that. We all share the same ancestors, if you go back enough generations. We all come from Africa.

In fact, I will go further to say that all the leading figures in the founding of fascism were men of the Left.

The first fascists," Anthony James Gregor tells us, "were almost all Marxists.

Jackson started this racket by seizing Indian land and then using it to make white settlers a bargain they could not refuse. He was, in a sense, a merchant trading in stolen goods. In this respect he exposes the low, disgraceful origins of Democratic success with the common man. No wonder Democrats are eager to bury this record, or at least foist it on someone else.