Quotes About Origins

What's past is prologue.

Therefore think him as a serpent's eggWhich, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous,And kill him in the shell.

Horace Pendergast, originally from Cairo, Illinois.

I am a collection of the family's body parts.

Son sus dioses. Ustedes los crearon, no ellos a ustedes. ¿Cómo podrían ser distintos a ustedes?

You catch any white man off guard in here right now, you catch him off guard and ask him what he is, he doesn't say he's an American. He either tells you he's Irish, or he's Italian, or he's German, if you catch him off guard and he doesn't know what you're up to. And even though he was born here, he'll tell you he's Italian. Well, if he's Italian, you and I are African even though we were born here.

Günümüzde kullan?lan ?ifre (cifir) sistemi Karmatîlerin eseridir. Kaynaklar, ?ifre ile haberle?meyi tarihte ilk kulanan ki?inin, Karmatîli?in liderlerinden biri olan Abdullah bin Meymûn el Kaddâh kod adl? ki?i oldu?unu biliyor.

I believe that it is not beneficial either to idealize Romani culture or treat it as exotic. Romani culture is not simply Indian or Asian, though some aspects of it clearly reflect its historical origins in India, language being one of the most obvious. Nor is it inherently a culture of poverty or a culture of resistance or defiance against mainstream norms.

People are often surprised to hear that Romani is in fact a fully fledged language just like any other, that it has its origins in India, that it is related to Sanskrit, an ancient language associated with Indian scholarship and religion, and that it has been preserved by the Romani populations through oral traditions and in a variety of dialects for many centuries.

If we don't remember where we came from, we'll go back there.

developmentally unhelpful families who have been able to leave the actual family home, but are unable to prevent the severity of their defenses from disrupting their adult friendships. In effect, Sandy carried such intense and powerful images of her family in her head that she reacted to others as if they were from her family of origin.

Muslim scholar Ibn 'Arabi (1165–1240) wrote, "Every branch reverts to its root.

After sitting through my lecture on white supremacy—its origins, reach, and consequences—one of my students said to me, "I couldn't have taken another minute of that." I said, "Good, then it was the right amount."

Everything comes from somewhere, and strange new infectious diseases, emerging abruptly among humans, come mostly from nonhuman animals.

More precisely, he placed the most recent common ancestor of DRC60 and ZR59 in the year 1908, give or take a margin of error.

Ebola is a zoonosis. So is bubonic plague. So was the so-called Spanish influenza of 1918–1919, which had its ultimate source in a wild aquatic bird and, after passing through some combination of domesticated animals (a duck in southern China, a sow in Iowa?) emerged to kill as many as 50 million people before receding into obscurity.

In ancient times only women could do math; men were thought too stupid. That's why the root for the word math is the same as for mother—they both come from the name of the Egyptian goddess, Maat. Mathematics literally means 'mother wisdom.

The Phoenician alphabet of 1000 B.C. would become the great-grandmother of our own. About 19 of our letters can be traced back directly—in their shapes, their alphabetical sequence, and, for most, their sounds—to Phoenician counterparts. Ours is not the only descendant. As shown in the "Family Tree of the World's Alphabets" (this page), the Phoenician alphabet has been the source for nearly every subsequent alphabet, past and present.

The idea of civilization has always been linked to the desire for universal history; a history that transcends written records, extending back in time to the origins of our species, outwards in space to encompass the full range of contemporary human diversity, and—at least in its early formulations—onwards into some improved future condition.

Being originated from a poor family does not let you think poor, but your weaknesses do.

Beginnings are happy never-endings as long as you remember where you started from.

On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

At Lincoln's second inaugural, a drunken Johnson, who had had one too many whiskeys that morning, plunged into a long, rambling, incoherent discourse, shouting about his humble origins and lecturing the assembled dignitaries from the Supreme Court and the diplomatic corps ("With all your fine feathers and gew-gaws") that they were merely "creatures of the people." Then, as he took his oath, Johnson visibly and audibly slobbered upon the Bible.