Quotes About Origins

The human and its humanity stand on a higher level than any religion since the human and its humanity was first on this planet before religions became the rules of life, without that religions collapse.

We are tornadoes that pick up fragments with the most varied historical and biological origins. This makes of us -- thankfully -- fickle agglomerations that maintain a fragile equilibrium, that are inconsistent and complex, that can't be reduced to any fixed framework that does not inevitably leave out a great deal. Which is why the more effective stories resemble ramparts from which one can gaze out at everything that has been excluded.

she theorized that a woman without love for her origins is lost.

When you haven't been in the world long, it's hard to comprehend what disasters are at the origin of a sense of disaster: maybe you don't even feel the need to. Adults

a woman without love for her origins is lost.

Fiquei-lhe grata pela mensagem imprecisa, que me consolou e deu origem a um entendimento comigo própria.

Maybe everything depends . . . on where you're born, and the inadequacy of the destiny that follows from that.

L'odio ha una sua concrezione strana, quando è definito e formulabile era già nato in noi, preesisteva in silenzio acquattato in una piega dell'animo

Virtually no major scientist today claims that the fine tuning was purely a result of chance factors at work in a single universe.

If we do get a quantum theory of spacetime, it should answer some of the deepest philosophical questions that we have, like what happened before the big bang?

My dad, who likes genealogy, knows who was the first guy that came from France in 1655, and the guy settled in Montreal, and Montreal is an island where the city is in Quebec.

I am a native of Hollis, Queens, N.Y.

I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day.

Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.

My family is from Elmhurst, Queens, 54th Avenue, but I was born in Northern California.

I credit where I'm from so much for my outlook on life, my personality, the rawness and the countryness about me. All these quirky things are because of where I'm from.

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?

I was brought up by a father and mother who were radically different.

I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast.

A Mudboy is just somebody who came from nothing: you know, who turned nothing into something. You know, when I was in Africa, in the rain, I walk around in, like, mud, you know, the sand would turn to mud, and you are not getting out of that.

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.

What I am is a direct result of how I was raised.

I was born in Hawaii, but I was raised in Iowa.

I was born in Birmingham and raised in Birmingham.