Quotes About Origins

I'm proud of who I am, and I'm proud I grew up in Puerto Rico.

Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.

The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.

It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.

I was born Davenie Johanna Heatherton, but my name was abbreviated for practical purposes.

I was born in Massachusetts. I live in Stillwater. I went to school in Florida.

I focused on how these people became how they were.

We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one god.

My dad was born in Desertmartin at the foot of Slieve Gallion.

My forefathers were from Punjab and so were my parents before they shifted to Delhi. And let me make this very clear - I am not a South Indian.

My own forefathers arrived in America in 1620 on the Mayflower.

Seattle is home, that's first and foremost.

If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?

I haven't forgotten where I came from.

My family grew up in Florence. There I became what I am now, and those are things that cannot be forgotten.

The angry Scot is a cliche not without some foundation. That's the Lowland Scot - I'm a Highlander. We're particularly lovely and charming.

America was founded on satanism.

Each company is different because they get their DNA from the founders.

I don't know how you talk about the founding of America, and what became of the United States, without talking about religious doctrine.

My mother is French, my father is Texan.

People think of fortune cookies as being Chinese, but in essence, they are fundamentally American.

We have not been created out of nothing, but from primeval ur-matter, atoms formed billions of years ago that have for a brief while been gathered into collections that think they are us.

polish comes from the cities, wisdom from the desert.

Swahili is a modified form of the Arabic sawa-hil, meaning 'coast people?