Quotes About Origins

But there comes to birth no common spawn From the love of a priest for a leprechaun, And you never have seen and you never will see Such things as the things that swaddled me!

No, wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.

It is always unsafe to detach a custom from its hold on past events, treating it as an isolated fact to be simply disposed of by some plausible explanation.

Is not this the carpenter's son?

Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.

I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

In the end, human creativity is rooted in life and in the breathtaking fact that life comes equipped with a precise mandate: resist and project itself into the future, no matter what. It may be helpful to consider these humble but powerful origins as we cope with the instabilities and uncertainties of the present.

Christianity is distinguished by the remarkable characteristic that it is the only world religion which begins by discarding its own founders's creed.

I," she says, "am Aethon, a simple shepherd from Arkadia, and—

How does a plague start inside a sealed disc that has had no contact with any other living thing for almost six and a half decades?

A is ???? is alpha: the inverted head of an ox. ? is ???? is beta: based on the floor plan of a house. ? is ? ???? is omega, the mega O: a great whale's mouth opening to swallow all the letters before it.

he wondered if such things were born into people. If perhaps we cannot alter who we are—if the place we come from dictates the place we will end up.

Her family was of obscure origin;

The Julii traced their ancestry to before the city's foundation, traditionally set at 753 B.C.

While my mother is from Jammu, my father was originally from Afghanistan, as my grandfather was the governor of five provinces there, including Herat.

I'm a child of provincial France.

The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness.

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

We have characteristics we're born with, that are molded by the lives we live. And so to have a psychologically engaged show, our view of human nature is that it doesn't come from nowhere, it comes from somewhere.

Policing has never been about public safety: its origins are rooted in social control, the denial of people's human rights, securing the U.S. borders, recapturing escaped, enslaved Africans, and upholding racist, homophobic, and transphobic laws.

I don't think it's fair that you can say I'm not a Puerto Rican fighter because I wasn't born in Puerto Rico, when my blood is Puerto Rican.