Quotes About Origins

Cockroaches appeared 120 million years before the dinosaurs.

Epidemiological evidence suggests that a new influenza virus originated in Haskell County, Kansas, early in 1918. Evidence further suggests that this virus traveled east across the state to a huge army base, and from there to Europe. Later it began its sweep through North America, through Europe, through South America, through Asia and Africa, through isolated islands in the Pacific, through all the wide world.

The disease soon became known as "Spanish influenza" or "Spanish flu," very likely because only Spanish newspapers were publishing accounts of the spread of the disease that were picked up in other countries.

This is the study of the whole realm of Forms, working out in full detail all the relationships in which the various ones of them stand to one another. So the rise to full life, in our self-absorption into our intellectual origins and natures, is itself an exercise of philosophy, of philosophy at its essential core of active knowledge of Forms.

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

For some reason, humans have this funny thing about where we came from - it always has far more emotional weight than where we are.

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots.

No matter how high up you get, never forget where you came from.

When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist.

When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

Tu n'es pas défini par tes origines. Ne le laisse pas t'entraîner dans sa chute.

Empirically speaking, we are made from star stuff. Why aren't we talking more about that? Materials never leave this world. They just keep recycling, recombining. That's what you kept telling me when we met--that in a real, material sense, what is made from where . I didn't have a clue what you were talking about, but I could see you burned for it. I wanted to be near that burning. I still don't understand, but at least now my fingers ride the lip.

We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.

We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We bein in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

The more we appreciate from whence we came biologically, the better placed we will be to build up those cultural and environmental influences that help ameliorate the worst aspects of war.

Van entretenir-se més en arribar a les dues cases contigües on havien viscut i que, passatgerament, ressuscitaren en ells una emoció fàcil de contenir, perquè ara ja no eren aquelles dues criatures que, de sobte, ho perdien tot, sinó un noi i una noia aleshores inexistents, la història dels quals començava al moment que es decidien a ser origen i no acabament.

period in which the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms came into being.