Quotes About Origins

I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs.

On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.

Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.

A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.

Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.

Great things have small beginnings.

May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism.

If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.

Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.

There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.