Quotes About Origins

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.

Read day and night, devour books—these sleeping pills—not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.

The real, the unique misfortune: to see the light of day. A disaster which dates back to aggressiveness, to the seed of expansion and rage within origins, to the tendency to the worst which first shook them up.

Extazul muzical este o revenire la identitate, la origi-nar, la r?d?cinile primare ale existenÅ£ei. În el r?mâne numai ritmul pur al existenÅ£ei, curentul imanent ÅŸi or-ganic al vieÅ£ii. Aud viaÅ£a. De aici încep toate revelaÅ£iile.

C'est d'un type spécial de veilles que dérive la mise en cause de la naissance

S? te r?zvr?teÅŸti împotriva eredit??ii înseamn? s? te r?zvr?teÅŸti împotriva a miliarde de ani, împotriva primeicelule.

Sa nu-ti renegi niciodata originile,oricate motive ai avea sa rosesti pentru ele.E o apostazie rusinoasa si de altfel fizic imposibila,o contradictie in termeni: e un refuz al indentitatii ,e ca si cum ai spune: "Eu nu sunt eu",lucru pe care,evident,il poti spune,dar care nu inseamna nimic-afara de cazul ca e o intorsatura retorica sau un paradox de circumstanta.

Începuturile noastre conteaz?, desigur; dar pasul decisiv spre noi înÈ™ine nu-l facem decât atunci când nu mai avem origini, când biografia noastr? e la fel de puÈ›in? ca a lui Dumnezeu...

S'insurger contre l'hérédité c'est s'insurger contre des milliards d'années, contre la première cellule.

Happy in love, Adam would have spared us History.

It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.

If you really want to be universal, do it from your own country.

The Idirans themselves had evolved on their planet Idir as the top monster from a whole planetful of monsters.

Authority seems to be nothing other than the vanishing-point of textuality. And Nature is authority whose textual origins have been forgotten.

Present-day anthropologists defend the thesis that the American Indians were in fact originally Mongolians who crossed over by the Bering Strait.)

What do you call kids born in whorehouses? Brothel sprouts.

And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.

I'm not sure which is worse--being born to it or learning it.

No matter what his birth certificate said or didn't say, he was Billy Dent's son.

Bizarrely, our English word 'sturdy' may go back to the Latin turdus, thrush. Anyone described as 'sturdy' in the 1200s was wilfully reckless and possibly as immovable as a sozzled bird.

Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.

We have to redefine what we mean when we say, 'Who are your people?' 'Where are you from?'

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'