Quotes About Origins

It's a rags-to-riches story, and everything we've learned so far from hockey players and software billionaires and the Termites suggests that success doesn't happen that way. Successful people don't do it alone. Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

This person will have been born in a

The Rosetons were healthy because of where they were from, because of the world they had created for themselves in their tiny little town in the hills…The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with has a profound effect on who we are.

BaÅŸar? sadece kendi eserleri deÄŸil. Ä°çinde büyüdükleri dünyan?n bir ürünü.

Yapt???m?z ÅŸeyde baÅŸar?l? olma yeteneÄŸimiz, nereden geldiÄŸimize güçlü biçimde baÄŸl?d?r.

Success has many fathers.

Big things often have small beginnings.

They say the apple don't fall far from the tree but every apple has it own seeds

Never be fooled that you are not number one, they got it wrong, because you beat a bunch of sperms to be alive.

If there ever comes a time that you forget where you came from, you've gone too far.

in appearance and background

The word literature enters the room with its nose in the air. But get it in a corner, ask the right questions, and it will reluctantly fess up to its humble origins. It hails from the Latin litterae, you whisper in your date's ear. It puts on a big act, but it literally just means "things made of letters.

Unamuno says: "The prehistoric is unconsciousness; it is the void." (This of course is literature, but it sounds convincing.) Nobody knows anything about the prehistoric!

She says she is Irish—Nell O'Connor, but she was born in Latvia and talks like a Greek.

How would one tell a story about happiness? One can only tell of the origins of happiness and its destruction.

In discussing the so-called biological origins of male dominance, the boys can afford to compare themselves to baboons and insects: they are writing books or teaching in universities when they do it. A Harvard professor does not refuse tenure because a baboon has never been granted it.

The light-colored stones are the newest. Dark-green stones are the oldest. Some are pea-sized or smaller, and others are as big as 1 inch in diameter. There may be dozens and, sometimes, even hundreds of stones (of different sizes and colors) coming out at once (see Figure 13b).

If you're like most of our readers, you're probably wondering where we get all the ideas for our books from. Well, sometimes we think them up. Other times they are based on stuff that actually happens. Like this book, for instance. It all started one morning when I got up and went down to get some breakfast.

Where is the freedom in this? Yes, you are free to do what you want even now. But where did your desires come from?

We are spawn of woodland apes. No code has been undone. Neither faith nor reason will deliver us. We must look to the trees.

I brought all this on myself by telling Ramona the story of my life – how I rose from humble origins to complete disaster. But a man who has made so many mistakes can't afford to ignore the corrections of his friends. Friends like Sandor, that humped rat. Or like Valentine, the moral megalomaniac and prophet in Israel. To all such, one is well advised to listen. Scolding is better than nothing. At least it's company.

it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.

The sciences paint an impersonal and objective account of the world, deliberately devoid of "meaning", telling us about origins and mechanics of life, by revealing nothing of the joys and sorrows of living.

especially the Psalms and their obscure origins and uses. The Psalms have been attributed to a number of different periods in the history of Israel, from the time of King David (eleventh or tenth century BCE) down to the age of the Maccabees (second century BCE).