Quotes About Origins

No one gave us life, we're the products of an explosion.

People are curious about how things are made.

libro Il disagio della civiltà, ma non riconobbe la sua origine e non riuscì a capire che è possibile liberarsene. Questa disfunzione collettiva ha creato una civiltà profondamente infelice

I never knew my father, my mother was an ape

More than six out of ten runaways from the Balls and their peers had been born in Africa.

Philip, his successor in the præfecture, was an Arab by birth, and consequently, in the earlier part of his life, a robber by profession.

This party comes from the grass roots. It has grown from the soil of the people's hard necessities.

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.

We are what they've made us, aren't we?

It's a very powerful neurosis—to not know where one came from and not love what one was. The family tree is what one was. It's important to recognize it head-on and love it.

Origins should never be a barrier to success. A modest start in life can be a help more than a hindrance.

Origins should never be a barrier to success. A modest start in life can be a help more than a hindrance. If you're examining successful people, look at their mother and father, study what they did, for clues about energy and motivation.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.

A person is not an originating agent; he is a locus, a point at which many genetic and environmental conditions come together in a joint effect.

I was born in Washington, D.C., and I was raised in Milwaukee.

I'm a man at the end of the day and I come from the streets, the trenches, I came from nothing, water and cornflakes.

I'm from the building where the wave was invented. Downstairs, under me. Ask Bigavel. Y'all call him Bigavel, Max B. I know him as Charlie Rambo. I'm from the building where the wave was invented, and it was invented after I was born.

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last name isn't even Downey. My dad changed his name when he wanted to get into the Army and was underage. My real name is Robert Elias. I feel like I'm still looking for a home in some way.

I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit.

The beauty of Captain America is that you didn't have to come from a distant planet, like Superman, or he didn't have to be born into a family of billionaires like Bruce Wayne. He happened to be in the right place at the right time, and someone gave him a magic potion, and he grew muscles and became a superhero.

Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French.

No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and so far we cannot test the universe before the Big Bang.