Quotes About Origins

Note to creationists: life and evolution are as inseparable as Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.)

The tale of someone's life begins before they are born.

Part of the answer probably has to do with innate genetic causes.

Louise: "How did you get here?" Johnny: "Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday." ~From the movie Naked, written by

Maybe you were telling the truth, maybe it was you who brought me to Earth. But I didn't ask to come, and I don't owe you for the favor!

We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.

Dac? n-ar fi fost mama È™i tata, prelungiri limpezi dincolo de naÈ™terea mea, È™i care st?teau jum?tate îngropaÈ›i în nisipul timpului, aÈ™ fi crezut È™i eu c? lumea începuse cu mine.

There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.

The current "thrust" of materialism is to escape the earth's orbit, to flee the knowledge and the problems of our messy, bloody, hungry, and waste-producing bodily origins—to dwell on wholly sterile and manmade stations (stasis, static) in space, where the astronaut, the modern priest of the techno-phallic religion, realizes his ancient dream: to utterly escape the earthly processes the rest of us remain wallowing in. In

My ancestors came over on the boat. Oh, not the Mayflower, but the boat after that. What did your ancestors come over on, Godfrey?

According to the astrological signs, all the humans are born outside of our planet Earth.

We have to thank our mother Eve. Without her, we wouldn't be here enjoying life.

A major part of our inquiry, then, must be to look at the emerging Christian movement and to ask: what caused it? Even if our eyewitnesses disagree in detail, something must have happened.

History is the third parent.

Even the air of this country has a story to tell about warfare. It is possible here to lift a piece of bread from a plate and following it back to its origins, collect a dozen stories concerning war-how it affected the hand that pulled it out of the oven, the hand that kneaded the dough, how war impinged upon the field where wheat was grown.

Where did you come from? I wasn't looking for you.

What's more, the North's unflattering genealogy began in the "bogs and fens" of Ireland and England, where they were spawned from vagabond stock and swamp people.

Unique among the American settlements, Georgia was not motivated by a desire for profit.

De acordo com Clouser, o único aspecto compartilhado por todas as religiões é que reconhecem algo como divino – e usam essa palavra para significar a realidade eterna e autoexistente que é a origem de todo o restante. Obviamente, elas não concordam sobre o que se caracteriza como divino; concordam apenas que algo é divino. Nenhum outro fator é verdadeiramente universal entre as religiões.

We start out as little bits of disconnected dust.

We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?

It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents and collect an allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at least, accept it.

I looked around almost in surprise, as though I had not been born here, but had suddenly dropped from the skies, or emerged from somewhere deep down in the earth, to find myself in a place where I did not belong, in a home which was not mine, born from a father who was not my father, and from a mother who was not my mother.

I am always fascinated when people talk about "the forging of a nation." Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century or so.