Quotes About Origins

What is past is prologue.

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.

... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.

By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.

Perhaps we painted on our own skin, with ochre and charcoal, long before we painted on stone.

And there was something different in his manner as well, a confidence born of intellect, not status or power. Curious how such fractional things, the angle of a head, a furrow between the brows, a hesitation, a measuring as if of a potential threat, could give away a man's origins even before he spoke.

Is Jensen really your name? she asked when he sat down again, closing the knife and tucking it back into his pocket. Does it matter? I've used any number of names. Jensen, Davidson, Wilson, Madsen. In other words your mother didn't know who your father was.

Calling such people "mulattoes," from the Spanish word meaning "mule," insinuated that blacks and whites, though related, were close to being separate species, as a mule is the offspring of a horse and a donkey.

she was born from the foam that arose when Ouranous's genitals landed in the sea—

Between the two of us, we've got a family tree rooted in Hell!

I think I was born with a suitcase.

My parents came from poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people, all the way back to the very first poor people.

After our earliest ancestors crawled out of the oceans, how soon did they feel the desire to crawl back in?

Adam and Eve covered their privates with fig leaves; the first Indians covered their privates with their tiny hands.

Who the hell thought of that? Probably the same sick SOB who saw a chicken shoot an egg out of its nether region and said, "Hey, y'all, I think I'm gonna dry that up and eat it. Wish me luck. If I get sick from it, someone fetch a doctor."' – Sundown

In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life

The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.

For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies to form and for life to begin.

We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken.

The probability of life ever evolving on Earth was slim to none. It's insane that we're all walking around and talking.

People in Ireland believed that fairies or the gentle folk were not earthly, having originated on other planets. Fairies often travel about the skies in cloudlike aerial boats called "fairy boats" or "spectre ships" (Rojcewicz 1991, p. 481).

Empires exist for the benefit of the parent state. That, and the fact that the colonists eventually came to appreciate this truth, goes a long way toward explaining the origins of the American Revolution. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the authorities in London, the seat of Great Britain's empire,

In Book II, Section-104, of his celebrated History, Herodotus states :—"For my part I believe the Colchi to be a colony of Egyptians, because like them they have black skins and frizzled hair." (See any English translation of THE HISTORY of HERODOTUS.