Quotes About Origins

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage in my life.

En Nueva York todo el mundo es de algún otro lugar.

Cause I'm not a stray cat or something you found by the side of the road." Tully grinned. "You mean like Kyle?" Tully leaned over and said, "His daddy don't like to talk about it, but he picked Kyle up over on Jessup Road hidin' under a car." Kyle wanted to be mad, but he couldn't. Not with Emma around. "Yeah. And your momma told me she got you from the pound. Had you fixed there, too.

In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt.

Within your physical atoms the origins of all consciousness still sings.

The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).

All forms of birth--physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional--bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life spirit birthing all, the seen and the unseen.

A biologia diz-nos que descendemos de criaturas de carne e osso, mas, no fundo, sabemos bem que somos filhos e filhas de fantasmas de papel e tinta.

We are surrounded by symbols and take them for granted. They had to start somewhere, though, and gained their meaning because of historical use, which is suggestive for fiction writers. Anything can be turned into a symbol.

The fossil record quietly accounts for me...

Why the woman is better...though she was created second she was made from Adam's side whole Adam was made from common clay. Woman should be preferred to man because Eve was created inside Paradise, but Adam was created outside. As for will, woman should be considered superior to man-for Eve ate of the apple for the love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

It was invented in the nineteen thirties by an Italian named Caesar Cardini at his restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico.

including—most importantly—the progenitors of dogs and cats. Not surprisingly, dogs turned into man's best friend on most human worlds.

779 AUC (Ab Urbe Condita)

the place of a history or tradition, we got instead the talk of "values" only, as though those values came from nowhere or could be invented afresh. In the name of great openness, we became close-minded, and in the name of progress, we absorbed ideas that turned out to be highly regressive.

Las consideraciones anteriores implican que lo que vivimos como acontecimientos externos son realmente proyecciones del continuo mental. Desde luego que estas proyecciones no son simples y menos conscientes, sino solamente desarrollos psicológicos profundos que permiten, a quien posee la madurez suficiente, la capacidad de atribuirle a los eventos externos un origen interno.

just because I was born in a stable does not make me a horse

Who knows but that all the men to whom reference has been made, and a multitude of others who lived in by-gone ages borrowed their wise sayings from the talk of the firesides and the conversations of the market places; so that the origin of many proverbs now flippantly quoted in the converse of men is lost in the mists of forgotten centuries.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

I always think about the streets because that's where I come from and that's where I'm going to die one day. That is my life.

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.