Quotes About Origins

I'm from Manhattan. I'm some Jewish girl from the Upper West Side.

My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867.

Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.

The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago.

The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequently changed to pan-Islamic movements. The role of Western countries in this aspect is also a part of the research.

The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers.

You can't know who you are unless you know where you came from and give praise to those who laid the foundation.

Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.

I arrive a month premature, with my dad's brains but not much else.

If you look back throughout history from the ancient Egyptians onwards, most cultures started making clothing from a very basic premise: a single piece of cloth.

I'm vitally interested in cyber crime and in preparing law enforcement for a time when crime is international in its origins and its consequences.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

To try and to pretend that there's no difference between where we come from is so dumb.

I am not saying do not give people equal health services but do not pretend that giving more money for diabetes or chronic diseases means you are going to deal with the origins of health inequalities.

I discovered I'm 60 per cent Viking. Well, more Danish, I suppose. I'm also two-and-a-half per cent Neanderthal.

Safety is not a retrofit; it's been in our DNA since day one.

I'm not defined by where I came from.

I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.

What you see on the runway is designed and created in America. That's something we're very proud of.

I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.

I was born and raised in Detroit.

I am a son of Detroit. I was born in Detroit.

My mother was actually born in Toledo and raised in Detroit.