Quotes About Origins

Walking runway has been something I didn't even think would be a possibility in my lifetime with my circumstances and my origins.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.

How does the cosmos create? That's not just any question, it's 'the' question. It's the God Problem.

My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad.

There's already a world of evidence that life on Earth is unique and intelligently crafted.

I come from very creative parents.

I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.

My cultural roots are something illusive.

I was never obsessed with being adopted. I was simply curious about my biological parents.

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.

It is of course perfectly possible for a university, or any institution, to carry out a rigorous investigation into the historical origins of its accumulated wealth, while at the same time putting in place systems to address modern inequalities of access and attainment.

I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else.

A caveman took a shell, and maybe it had a hole in it, or maybe he put a hole in it, and he put it on a piece of a tail of a donkey or a dinosaur or something and gave it to the cavewoman. She put it around her neck - the first jewel.

You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

In fact, in the original folk tale, Aladdin was actually of Chinese descent. So what we wanted to do with this was represent as many different cultures from that part of the world as possible.

I'm not saying none of these guys are talented, but people think Ed Sheeran crawled off a couch and lived on the street or something, but him, Ellie Goulding... they all come from Suffolk, Surrey, Richmond... they come from support.

I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.

The truth is I don't really know where my own interest in tall buildings really comes from. It cannot come from my hometown because there were no tall buildings there!

I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was?

Peirce shifts our attention from the origins of ideas and hypotheses to their consequences for our conduct.