Quotes About Origins

Um país é a sua história, bispo; a soma de todas as suas histórias. Somos o que nossos pais fizeram de nós, suas vitórias nos deram o que temos .

The stuff of which the world of our experience is composed is, in my belief, neither mind nor matter, but something more primitive than either. Both mind and matter seem to be composite, and the stuff of which they are compounded lies in a sense between the two, in a sense above them both, like a common ancestor.

Descubre muchas cosas el científico; descubre muchas cosas que están sucediendo en el mundo, que son, al principio, comienzos de cadenas causales, primeras causas que no tienen causa en sí mismas. No supone que todo tiene una causa.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

I was actually born in New York City, but my family moved to Atlantic City when I was five, this being my dad's home town, so I think that qualifies me as a Jersey resident if not a bona fide native.

I was born in in Amritsar, the eldest of the four siblings.

All of my relatives on both sides of my family are from Allentown.

My father was born and raised in Sierra Leone, and my mom was from Bermuda.

In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Africa and Persia. In fact, one of my earlier creations was a range of tunics, made from silk procured from the islands of Madagascar.

I remember watching the 'Iron Man' cartoons when I was younger. I remember reading the origin stories and some of the Silver Age stuff, and I read 'The Avengers' - 'The Defenders' and then 'The Avengers' - and that sort of brought me into 'Iron Man.'

Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends.

I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.

For a moment I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the place of your origins, and then the ache of mis-belonging.

For a moment I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the pale of your origins, and then the ache of mis-belonging.

For a moment I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the place of your origins, and then the ache of mis-belonging. It was beautiful, this place, and it was savage. It swallowed you and made you a part of itself, or if you proved to in assimilable, it spit you out like the pit of a plum.

I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the place of your origins, and then the ache of mis-belonging.

For a moment I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the place of your origins, and then the ache of mis-belonging. It was beautiful, this place, and it was savage. It swallowed you and made you a part of itself, or if you proved too inassimilable, it spit you out like the pit of a plum.

the aristocrats came over a decade later on the Arbella. The trash came on the Mayflower.

Many people nowadays have surnames that reveal their ancestors' fairy origins. Otherlander and Fairchild are two.

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

El momento presente no tiene más fundamento que su parentesco con el pasado.

If there is something right in Beauvoir's claim that one is born, but rather becomes a woman, it follows that woman itself is a term in process, a becoming, a constructing that cannot rightfully be said to originate or to end. As an ongoing discursive practice, it is open to intervention and resignification.

Sin raíces no somos nada, es como si no tuviéramos los pies firmes sobre la tierra. Debe de ser terrible no saber quién es uno, y claro, eso sólo podemos saberlo si conocemos la historia de nuestros mayores.