Quotes About Origins

My dad does a good job of reminding me where I came from.

It's where you're from - it's your roots - and that's why I like to get back to Nacogdoches in the offseason and hang out with my family. To me, it keeps me grounded and reminds me of how far I've come.

It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

I believe my last name Hunt is an anglicized version of O'Fianna.

I was born and raised in Pocatello, Idaho.

All ideas grow out of other ideas.

The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice.

I've always been really interested in how people's identities are shaped by where they come from and how they want to get away from where they come from.

It's our roots that really give us our identity.

I was born to an illustrious family in Hyderabad.

I was born to Chinese immigrant parents, who came from Taiyuan.

In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.

In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar.

Everyone of us who belongs to any special religion can trace back along the line of his religion further and further into the past, until he comes to its beginning, its first Teacher. And round that Teacher is usually a group of men and women who to the Founder of the religion are disciples, but to those who accept the religion later are teachers, apostles. And this is invariably true.

Both a baby and a poem masquerade as something we've created, when we know that they arrive from somewhere beyond us, that they are gifts.

For nearly all that is good in our American civilization we are indebted to the Old World; the errors and mischiefs are of our own creation.

Creationists mainly are Americans who think the world was created in 1982 to coincide with the rise of Super Tramp but you can very easily dispute this by playing some of Super Tramps earlier albums.

So much must be established at birth . . . in the random choosing of a name.

You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really un-evolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day". Yeah, looks like He rushed it

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

I'm very proud of my roots, and I would never try not to be who I am.