Quotes About Origins

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

I have never felt any connection with my family. There is—I must say simply—something in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.

Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John.

The mother of creation is vanity.

Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.

My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan.

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.

The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.

All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.

Light may be shed on man and his origins.

Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.

I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion... Art's origins are natural.

Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.

You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

Everyone is from somewhere, even if you've never been there.

Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.