Quotes About Origins

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

There were poets before Homer.

Every word was once a poem.

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

I was born in the house my father built.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins become fetters if they cannot alter.

Power is everywhere...because it comes from everywhere.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.

My forefathers didn't come over on the May-flower, but they met the boat.

My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met 'em at the boat.

Most people think adopted kids like me have this need to connect with our biological roots so we can discover who we really are. They think being "takeout" is totally different than being "homemade." But we're not different at all.

My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.

I assume he was descended from apes like all the rest of us, but clearly in his case it had been a fairly gentle slope.

Chaldeans came from an undetermined part of East Arabia.

The older pictographic theory still has some virtues. First proposed by William Warburton, an Anglican cleric who eventually became bishop of Gloucester and who wrote in the 1730s, it was, and probably remains, the most commonly accepted theory about the origins of writing.

I wouldn't mind bein' buried right here," Francis told Rudy. "You from around here?" "Used to be. Born here." "Your family here?" "Some." "Who's that?" "You keep askin' questions about me, I'm gonna give you a handful of answers.

Islamul trebuie înÈ›eles ca un produs al societ??ilor în care s-a extins, dar È™i ca un produs al societ??ilor de origine

Scientists used to think that whatever the very early universe might have been like, given sufficient time and some luck, intelligent life forms would eventually evolve somewhere. As a result of discoveries over the last fifty years or so, we now know that that assumption was wrong; in fact, quite the opposite is true.

A person can't help their birth.

once believed I was a foundling with royal blood—Plantagenet, I think it was. I don't know how I managed to get on my parents' doorstep,

The speckled moth changes its wing coloring; bacteria develop drug resistance. Why should this count in favor of the thesis that whales are derived from ungulates, or men from fish?

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