Quotes About Origins

Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

I am from Hawaii. But I am not Hawaiian. I am full Samoan.

Uh, do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them. The means that he used to do that, I can't say, but I do believe in that fundamental truth.

I don't know where I got the height from; dad was only five-foot-seven and my brother's five-foot eight.

The way I make something out of nothing, I got that from my mama. That's 100% her.

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.

My parents are from Scotland and my sister and brother were both born in Scotland so my heritage is from there.

To me, I think it's awesome to meet your heroes and find out who they are and where they came from and what made them choose to communicate in the form that connected with you.

My father was just an amateur; my mother is not even an athlete herself.

I can't hide where I grew up or the flavors I grew up on.

You can take the girl out of Beverly Hills, but you can't take the Beverly Hills out of the girl.

The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

The end was contained in the beginning.

They are likewise called Gaideli, and also Scots. Ancient histories relate that one Gaidelus, a grandson son of Phaenius,{150} after the confusion of tongues at the tower of Nimrod, was deeply skilled in various languages. On account of this skill, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, gave him his daughter Scota for wife. Since, therefore, the Irish, as they say, derive their original lineage from these two, Gaidelus and Scota, as they were born, so are they called Gaideli and Scots.

I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.

Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.

Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.

I come from a very working-class background.

I was brought up in a strong working-class community by working-class parents and relations until I was 18, and that's what I really am. Now all sorts of things have been added, but that's what I am.

Where I come from, everyone talks like me. It's working-class Edinburgh.

I think Ant and I were ambitious because of where we come from. Both of us are from working-class families on council estates in Newcastle.

People have to recognise I'm a working-class lad. Forget what I've done and where I've been. I'm a working-class lad. I've come from nothing and I've not forgotten that.

I have a tell-all book about where I came from, as well as a workout video.