Quotes About Origins

Rurik was the Clovis of Russia. When with his band of followers he was established at Novgorod the name of Russia came into existence, supposedly from the Finnish word ruotsi, meaning rowers or sea-farers.

Real things are made things. Are you a real person, or did your parents make you up? Is that a real mountain or did the forces of the universe make it up? Is the virtual reality of the Internet real or did imaginative people like Steve Jobs make it up?

Though the schools and traditions of Hinduism differ widely on the origins and precise function of these mechanisms of karma and sa?s?ra, they all agree that they exist. They also all share an interest in ending this seemingly endless cycle and this desire is their raison d'être.

Every misogynist came out of a woman.

I looked around at all the certificates on the wall and felt thankful to come from a place where personal success was meaningless.

of Plato's Republic and Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism, which she did own in her root

My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.

Who you come from is part of who you are. How do you just let that be stolen from you?

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

In fact, the name 'rook' derives from ruhk, the Persian word for chariot. Pawns were footsoldiers, bishops were elephants, knights were mounted cavalry, and speeding along at the edges of the board were the swift and deadly chariots.

el menor secreto de un objeto, que vemos en la naturaleza que no es humana, toma quizás una parte más directa en el profundo enigma de nuestros fines y de nuestros orígenes que el secreto de nuestras pasiones más arrebatadoras y con sentido más complaciente estudiadas

Nothing ever begins when you think it does. You think you can trace something back to its roots but roots by definition never end. There's always something that came before: soil and water and seeds that were born of trees that were born of yet more seeds.

Old English 'æppel' used to mean any kind of fruit.

The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.

The closest relatives of bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) are parasites of cave bats—which indicates that that was also bed bugs' original niche.

The image of Eve is not our image of woman.

One is reminded of the origins of Christianity and the process whereby Pauline thought, originally a schism or heretical deviation from Jesus' own teachings, supplanted those teachings and became the new orthodoxy — while Nazarean thought, the original repository of the teachings, was labelled a form of heresy.

Sperm Donor. My mom had used that term. We can just call him Ed, the sperm donor. It wasn't the first time I had heard of my biological father being referred to this way. It wouldn't be the last. It was said like it was a joke.

The Classical civilisation, which Greece originated, is the only civilisation which is spread out before us, from beginning to end.

We domesticated pigs and got whooping cough, domesticated chickens and got typhoid fever,894 and domesticated ducks and got influenza.

People living in democratic republics should know not only of its origins but also of the imperfect democratic struggle it spawned. Such appreciation might alleviate the taking of one's way of life for granted.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

22Fidalgo derives from filho d'algo—literally, the "son of somebody"—though it later became a generic term for nobility.

You are what what you eat eats.