Quotes About Origins

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

I'd like to thank Mom and Dad, just for the genetics.

I think when you look at religion, you look at where Christianity came from. You know, my mom delved deeper into that. And she felt a deep connection.

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.

Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing.

Do you come from old money, new money, or no money?

Money tends to take on and maintain the characteristics in which it is acquired.

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee.

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

My mother gave me one piece of advice that stuck with me. She said don't forget where you came from.

Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

The Romans did not see [the tale of Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf] as a charming story; they meant to show that they had imbibed wolfish appetites and ferocity with their mother's milk.

My father is Swedish and my mother is French.

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

Sean Óg ó Hailpín.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold.

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.

If I'm his 'twin,' we do not have the same mother.