Quotes About Origins

I feel really blessed because of where I come from.

The O is where I'm from. It's short for O Block.

My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

The majority of my blood is Asian.

People would be amazed that I've grown up in Bombay and not Banaras.

My father is Croatian but went to school in Bosnia, and my mother's also Croatian but lived in Bosnia.

All my family's from Boston.

I was born in Boston.

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

I'm a kid from Boston.

London really is my city; I was born within a breath of Marble Arch.

All my Latino side is from the Bronx.

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.

I am made in Brooklyn, U.S.A. and I am definitely in the heavyweight-title house.

The ku-magic is a very ancient magic. It predates Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.

I'm still so grounded and so regimented, too. I've developed myself for such a long time - my characteristics and who I am - that if I try to change myself, my origins will pull me back.

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

You could have names like Hatred; you could have names that mean something like Suffering or Poverty. So names are not just names: names have real meaning, and they tend to tell the world about the circumstances of your parents at the time that you were born.

There aren't sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution, and it deals with the origins of man, which is more from a philosophical standpoint than a scientific standpoint.

I was born in a suit.