Quotes About Origins

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

I was born there and I grew up in East L.A., not Hollywood.

I'm basically a homegrown American.

Sometimes in Asian homes it is all about where we've come from, which is important too, but it is about where you live and where you're born and the people who are the same as you.

I was born in Homestead, Florida.

I do love my hometown. It really forged who I am in a major way.

It is important for us to understand where we came from and how we got here because it would be very foolish of us to get off that horse we rode in on.

I'm a kid from housing estate in Glasgow.

My father's family, I think, were mostly from Lancashire, but I don't know how far back we go. I think it's quite a few generations.

Where you come from is such a huge part of who you are today.

If I look at my make-up, Canada is a huge part of what I am.

I come from very humble beginnings.

I do come from fairly humble beginnings.

I come from humble beginnings myself.

Growing up it was humble beginnings.

I do come from a very humble background.

My parents are Hungarian.

The story of the meaning of existence is a long one. Its origins are Greek, pre-Christian. As we have seen suffering was used as a way of proving the injustice of existence, but at the same time as a way of finding a higher and divine justification for it. (It is blameworthy because it suffers, but because it suffers it is atoned for and redeemed.)

What distant ancestors had given me this stupid conscience? Surely they were free of it when they raped and killed m their palaeolithic world.

I looked in depth into the ancient and 100 per cent Indian origins of Vedic civilisation in my book Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age. There was no such thing as an Aryan invasion of India. That whole racist idea is completely bust.

I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in a society that invests huge amounts of money and vast quantities of energy in ensuring that we all stay lost. A society that invests in creating unconsciousness, which invests in keeping people asleep so that we are just passive consumers or products and not really asking any of the questions.

Denisovans, Neanderthals, more. Trial balloons of biology.

Our bodies are the children of all the suns and other stars that died before us, making the atoms that we are made of.

As the universe expanded and cooled down, these very tiny bits of things came together to make particles. Then the particles came together to make the first of the atoms. Then the atoms came together to make molecules. Then the molecules came together to make the first of the stars. Those first stars went through their cycles, and exploded in a shower of new atoms. The new atoms came together to make more stars and planets. All the stuff we are made of came from those dying stars.