Quotes About Origins

They were born in the city from people born elsewhere.

The legacy of the past is the foundation of the present.

There is a connection between Dal mations and gipsies. Many people believe that it was the gipsies who first brought Dalmatians to England, long, long ago. And nothing like as long ago as that, there were gipsies who travelled round England with Dalmatians trained to do tricks. And these performing dogs earned money for the gipsies.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

It takes centuries to invent the primitive.

How do you know so much?" Babette said. "I'm from New York.

Initial uniformity can be deceiving, warns the author, because parties arrive at that state from so many different motives which will be exposed over time.

We're each an amalgamation of all those in our lineage. - Fergus McCrae

Dr. Klaus Mampell from Germany reportedly said that he didn't see any more reason for seeing us (the human race) connected with apes than with canary birds or kangaroos.

The Greek word for "rooster" is built from combined parts that mean "getter out of bed".

Making the nation safe for white people could be more easily accomplished with the help of a whitewashed tale of its origins.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

that a principal "obstacle to writing improvement is our tendency to dwell on either the final results or the mental origins of writing to the exclusion of the activity of writing, as if an empty gap separated writing from thinking.

Romulus and Remus, twin sons of dark Mars and a human vestal, sucking at the dugs of a wolf bitch.

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.

I'm one eighth Lakota, but I don't think one eighth of anything counts for much. I'm half Irish, and then some Austrians got into the mix. Then there's the English part. That's where Hillary came from. I bet the Indians even watch the weather channel.

We knew Down South. Everyone had one. Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico.

You the first in your tribe to go to college? Iris shook her head. It was a question about class. She knew that now. It was the what-are-you question. The where and what and who do you come from.

I hid you from them, you know, she said—like she was looking into my head finally. Seeing something there. That's how you got here. They were hella good Catholics back then, but you would have been dust. From who?

I only now understand why it is that people lie about their past, why they say they are one thing other than the thing they really are, why they invent a self that bears no resemblance to who they really are, why anyone would want to feel as if he or she belongs to nothing, comes from no one, just fell out of the sky, whole.

I said, "All along I have been wondering how you got to be the way you are. Just how it was that you got to be the way you are.

Je comprends seulement maintenant pourquoi les gens mentent sur leur passé, pourquoi ils disent qu'ils sont une chose autre que la chose qu'ils sont réellement, pourquoi ils s'inventent un être qui ne présente aucune ressemblance avec qui ils sont réellement, pourquoi quiconque voudrait avoir le sentiment de n'être de nulle part, de ne venir de personne, d'être tombé du ciel, voilà tout, complet.

There are no detailed Darwinian accounts for the evolution of any fundamental biochemical or cellular system, only a variety of wishful speculations [Article : "In the Details . . . What?"]

The idea is that diseases like cancer and diabetes started around the same time that we began growing our own foods.