Quotes About Origins

Riddle traveled a lot in his twenties and recalls being hit by a realization. So much of people's lives—their opportunities, their health and longevity—comes down to where they were born. "It's so random," he says.

Los acontecimientos que influyen decisivamente en nuestros destinos a menudo tienen su origen en sucesos triviales

Na verdade, quando busco as origens da minha obsessão, que veio depois a reger o meu destino, descubro que ela brotou, como um rio na montanha, de um fio de água remoto e quase esquecido, que foi-se avolumando pouco a pouco, até converter-se na torrente que arrastou em seu curso todas as minhas esperanças e alegrias.

So if gangsters become governments, does this mean that governments began as gangsters?

Further evidence for the man-made nature of gods comes from their evolutionary history. It is a little-known fact, but gods evolve.

All Britons are descended from the same set of people a mere thirty generations ago.

It is an extraordinary fact, unremembered by most, that in the Anglosphere people live by laws that did not originate with governments at all.

If you think being descended from apes is bad for your self esteem, then get used to the idea that you are also descended from viruses.

The story of a briefly abundant hairless primate originating in Africa is but a footnote in the history of life, but in the history of the hairless primate it is central.

Which do you think is an index of the more advanced civilization, knowing where the soap comes from, or not knowing?

John, the self-made man, self-made in every sense, out of nowhere, penniless, parentless, tie-less...but I've always thought of him as if he had come into the world like Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, who sprang forth from Jupiter's head, fully grown and fully armed.

when I looked at Anatole's wrinkled brown knuckles and pinkish palms, I pictured hands like those digging diamonds out of the Congo dirt and got to thinking, Gee, does Marilyn Monroe even know where they come from?

Head nodding has its origins in bowing to appear subordinate.

Within days, perhaps hours, the discarded remnants of this last job would have been bleached of any trace of their origins, each just another nameless, colorless item among nameless, colorless souls, the flotsam and jetsam of loneliness and despair that fall from time to time into Tokyo's collective blind spot, and from there into oblivion.

In Arius's view, everything except for God himself had a beginning. Only God is "without beginning.

Thus, for Reimarus, the disciples started the Christian religion.

The very first surviving account of Jesus's life was written thirty-five to forty years after his death. Our latest canonical Gospel was written sixty to sixty-five years after his death. That's obviously a lot of time.

we have no writings from them, or writings of any kind, in fact, from the first two decades of the Christian movement.

If a story is found in several of these independent traditions, then it is far more likely that this story goes back to the ultimate source of the tradition, the life of Jesus itself. This is called the criterion of independent attestation.

You can't have the fruits without the roots.

For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root." –Henry David Thoreau

It should also be noted that many girls' names, including Shirley, Carol, Leslie, Hilary, Renee, Stacy, and Tracy began life as boys' names, but girls' names almost never cross over to boys.)

phrase "often a bridesmaid, never a bride" originated with a 1925 Listerine advertisement.)

Poverty has no causes," wrote the economist Peter Bauer. "Wealth has causes.