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Quotes About Origins

History is the third parent.
~ Nadeem Aslam
To treat the history of Israel as I would treat the history of England or Russia or China; that is, an attempt at a scientific, historical approach.I am particularly fascinated with origins.
~ Hershel Shanks
I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L.A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.
~ James Ellroy
In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.
~ Simon Schama
The history of theatre is the history of first nights.
~ John Lahr
Each of us is born with a history already in place
~ Walter Dean Myers
When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.
~ Konrad Adenauer
Not only does charity begin at home. Everything begins at home, including spirituality.
~ Swami Satchidananda
Kuwait is our haven which God has given us, the home he granted us.. Kuwait is our origins and branches, security and resolution, protection and glory.. The past, present and future.
~ Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
Everybody's got somewhere they call home.
~ Roger Waters
Some people are born very far from home.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.
~ Bruce Lee
A joke isn't yours. It's used and you don't know where it's been.
~ Ricky Gervais
After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.
~ George W. Bush
Nice to be born in this universe. Thanks dad and mom.
~ Nodas
No one ever thinks about the guy who was raised by the guy who was raised by wolves.
~ Demetri Martin
Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.
~ Hassan Fathy
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
~ Charles Darwin
A root is a flower that disdains fame.
~ Khalil Gibran
If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?
~ Carl Sagan
Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?
~ Rachel Bilson
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.
~ Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
I'll never forget where I'm from, never forget my roots. It doesn't matter where I live. I'm English, simple as that.
~ David Beckham
Even the highest branches cannot deny that they have roots in a common bond.
~ K.M. Tepe