Quotes About Origins

I can't believe that out of a hundred thousand sperm you were the quickest.

Your future is bigger than where you were born.

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

God made everything that has life. And the rest is made in China.

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

When most dullards hear the words 'the theater,' they envision a twelve-screen multiplex where disaster porn entertains the culturally witless for 90 minutes at a time. Pfaugh. The word 'theater' has grandeur. Power. Back to its ancient Grecian origins, it means 'the seeing place.' A stage upon which actors and actresses use fiction to show us truths.

People think it way past the time when anybody can remember who start things first, but don't get the history of the ghetto twist up, decent people. Buntin-Banton and Dishrag start it first. And when PNP win the 1972 election all hell break loose. First

The good thing about being a construct is that you can't reproduce and create children to argue with you.

It's not a baby, it's a copy of me, made with code." Amena folded her arms and looked intensely skeptical. "That you and ART made together, with code. Code which both of you are also made out of.

La palabra «nostalgia» viene de la palabra compuesta griega nosto, que significa «ir a casa», y algos, que significa «dolor».

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

If you're looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.

No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

Being male forms, since they have not originated from the sickness, which is femaleness,36 but from one who has already left the sickness behind, possess the name "church." For

the empire created the emperors – not the other way round.

Very few towns or cities are founded at a stroke, by a single individual. They are usually the product of gradual changes in population, in patterns of settlement, social organisation and sense of identity. Most 'foundations' are retrospective constructions, projecting back into the distant past a microcosm, or imagined primitive version, of the later city.

In fact, the modern word 'candidate' derives from the Latin candidatus, which means 'whitened' and refers to the specially whitened togas that Romans wore during election campaigns, to impress the voters.

Nonetheless, whatever mystery surrounds them, the Olmec have left us a powerful in-your-face reminder that across the world, when people first made art they made it about themselves. From the very beginning art has been about us.

Roman writers tended to take it for granted that the origins of the senate went back to Romulus, as a council of 'old men' (senes), and that by the fifth century BCE it was already a fully fledged institution operating much as it did in 63 BCE.

The name 'Romulus' is itself a give-away. Although Romans usually assumed that he had lent his name to his newly established city, we are now fairly confident that the opposite was the case: 'Romulus' was an imaginative construction out of 'Roma'. 'Romulus' was merely the archetypal 'Mr Rome'. Besides

Roman writers tended to take it for granted that the origins of the senate went back to Romulus, as a council of 'old men' (senes)

The more you think about things, the weirder they seem. Take this milk. Why do we drink *cow* milk?? Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!?