Quotes About Origins

You are both stars, don't forget. When the stars exploded billions of years ago, they formed everything that is this world. The moon, the trees, everything we know is stardust. So don't forget. You are stardust. - ROSE PEDDLER

this new frontier is characterized by at least five trends: a severance of the public and private mind from our food's origins; a disappearing line between machines, humans, and other animals; an increasingly intellectual understanding of our relationship with other animals; the invasion of our cities by wild animals (even as urban/suburban designers replace wildness with synthetic nature); and the rise of a new kind of suburban form.

Genetically, we are essentially the same creatures as we were at the beginning. We are still hunters and gatherers.

There exists a bastard cuisine that is too often assumed to be real French cooking.

We all swim deep in the river of our ancestry.

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

So the question of our origins concerns the forces that sprung Homo erectus from their australopithecine past. Anthropologists have an answer. According to the most popular view since the 1950s there was a single supposed impetus: the eating of meat.

The proposal that the human household originated in competition over food presents a challenge to conventional thinking because it holds economics as primary and sexual relations as secondary.

Oh God," I said. "I'm Zmey's daughter. Zmey junior. Zmeyette, even.

He's a man by ancestry, a Martian by environment.

Oremos por un último aterrizaje sobre el globo que nos vio nacer. Fijemos nuestros ojos en el cielo aborregado y las frescas, verdes colinas de la Tierra.

Few of our ancestors were perfect ladies or gentlemen; the majority of them were not even mammals.

Keep her origins a mystery.

It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.

I don't go to school, I don't have parents, I came from the sea to be your husband.

But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you.

You are lucky. How so? To know where you came from. I guess I never gave it much thought.: Bah, of course not. But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.

But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle.

But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle…Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.

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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.

120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

Fear is the mother of all gods.