Quotes About Origins

This was all news to us lower ranks who, while we'd theoretically known Seawoll had parents, had always assumed that he'd been assembled in a factory somewhere outside Wakefield.

His mum was Filipino

Recessions can be triggered by many causes, or combinations of causes.

If not interest rates or monetary policy, then what? Most research on the origins of the bubble has focused on three factors: mass psychology; financial innovations that reduced the incentive for careful lending;

it can be too easy to forget where you came from.

The first contribution of the ancient Greeks was the philosophy of natural law.

Mais quelle famille solitaire avais-je donc ! J'étais même ébahi que deux de ses membres avaient pu s'assembler pour engendrer les deux suivants. Seulement, des solitaires qui feignent de ne pas l'être... voilà sans doute comment les familles se construisent, et comment la race des gens seuls est devenue si nombreuse.

Before i launch into a discussion of what a nerd is and where the idea of nerds comes from, I'd like to diclose that when i was eleven, I had a rich fantasy life in which I carried a glowing staff.

Since algebra derives from the Arabic jabara = to bind together, fractal and algebra are etymological opposites!)

It is always nice to reflect on how one started.

I am not sure I can make clear what it means to say I come from the Catholic side of Protestantism, but at the very least, it means that I do not think Christianity began with the Reformation.

I think a lot of Americans forget that they are not originally from here, that somebody in their past was a refugee.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

I mean, I'm humble... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California.

Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.

Not many Rabbitts in this country are related to me.

Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

I was born to a Hindu father and Muslim mother on Christmas day. You can't get more secular than that.

I loved the 'Lord of the Rings' books, 'The Hobbit.' And my parents, they still don't understand it because they hate fantasy stuff. Neither of them are into it. So I don't know where it comes from.