Quotes About Origins

Let us all be from somewhere.

Zhenya Luvers was born and grew up in Perm.

You know where the term severance pay comes from, Scot?" said Longo as he hung the clipboard on a peg inside the cabinet and locked it again. "No, but you're going to tell me, right?" Ignoring Harvath's sarcasm, Longo continued. "It's also from England. When prisoners were going to be beheaded, they offered the axeman a little extra money to make sure he chopped their heads off with one, clean blow.

This is what I call a Distributary World – it was created by ideas flowing out of another world. This world could not have existed unless that other world had existed first. Whether this world is still dependent on

Entender de dónde venimos, qué hubo antes de nosotros, es el primer paso para poder avanzar sin mentiras.

What a man wants is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

The second element of change is understanding. By understanding where your "way of thinking" originates, you can recognize that it has to come from outside you.

según las cuales lo que hay debajo del suelo crea lo que está por encima de él, lo invisible crea lo visible.

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch. I am not Russian at all; I come from Lithuania, I am a real German. (Eliot's translation)

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.

Priests claimed the gods made men, but this was not so. Men made the gods. Firstly, by forming them in clay, by chipping them from stone. Secondly, and more importantly, by believing in them, believing in them utterly. During

Humans are a terrestrial species biased toward attributing the forces we see around us to familiar forces on land. But the more we look, the more we learn that everything arises from the sea and everything falls away to the sea, and the deep blue home is home to every one of us, whether we are beings of water, air, rock, ice, or soil.

Beginnings are always hard.

How does knowing where we are from inform who we are now?

According to the modern man, both causes and effects are relegated to the physical plane, framed within time and space. According to the traditional man the physical plane merely contains effects; nothing takes place in this world that did not originate first in the next world or in the invisible dimension.

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I'm from the Dominican Republic. They're the reason I exist at all. To these roots I owe everything.

All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings.

Martin is usually represented in the act of sharing his cape with the beggar. This is also the origin of the word chapel—for centuries later, in a small church, there was a piece of cloth reputed to be a portion of Martin's cape. From that piece of cape—capella—the little church came to be called a "chapel," and those who served in it, "chaplains.

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

More of 'The Bourne Identity's script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate, than what was taken from Robert Ludlum's novel.

My grandparents were all born in the U.S., but their parents came from Ireland.