Quotes About Origins

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?

The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the universe.

this is actualy a poem we have been called naive as if it were a dirty word, whe have been called innocent as though with shame our cheeks should burn so we visit with the careful idols of cynisism to learn to sneer and pant and walk so as not to feel the scales of judgement rub wrongly but we say some things must remain simple some things must remain untouched and pure lest we all forget the legacy we begot us the health of our origins the poetry of our fundemental selves

Superman first bounded over tall buildings in 1938. Batman began lurking in the shadows in 1939. Wonder Woman landed in her invisible plane in 1941.

You couldn't get worse food, or food more detached from nature, if you tried. If you have an apple, you're connected to an apple tree. If you have a dish of set custard and half a glace cherry you're not connected to anything.

Scratch a Russian, as the saying goes, and you find a Tatar.

and finally his current self-awareness, tinged with compulsions whose origins he couldn't access or control.

Beginnings are special because most of them are fake.

Orthodoxy is our roots, the roots from which our country evolved,

She waited until Jeremy's footsteps receded. "I didn't know you had a brother." "Now you do." He continued writing. "Do you have any other siblings?" "No." "Parents?" "I didn't crawl out of Hell, if that's what you are asking.

Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind.

I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.

Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.

I spent a lot of time thinking that I was some kind of foundling, that I had been a changeling, that I had been found under a bush somewhere, and that I couldn't possibly be kin - but the more I live, the more I feel absolutely like I come out of my family. I'm a sort of strange natural progression.

We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system.

My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.

If anything, who I am and my background helped propel me and helped me stand out.

If you look at the origins of the postal service in the U.S., the founding fathers created it to protect democratic rights.

Be very proud of your name and where you come from. It's so important. Say it loud and clear for everybody to hear.

To speak about yourself, you must first be able to assemble a sense of origin. For descendants of slaves, this has proved one of the most precious losses of self-knowledge we've endured.

It was called the Spanish flu not because it began in Spain, but because that country, being a noncombatant in the war, did not censor news.

I was born in a wreck and my mothers a whore.

My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.