Quotes About Origins

The majority of my family is in Jersey.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.'

I'm a Caucasian American Jew. These are all things that make up who I am.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

If you research history, I think we are all Jewish. It's the original culture.

I think everyone wants to know why I look like this. These jokes I make about looking Chinese... My mother's from Hungary and my dad was from Canada. There's a lot of immigration in my past.

other words, he is more closely related to any of the Neanderthal samples, all of which date from at least 30,000 years ago, than he is to any living man, woman or child on the planet.

Muslim, Jew, Hindu or Christian, you are that because of where and when you were born. If you are an atheist, you are that because of a book or two you read, or who your parents were and the century in which you were born. Don't delude yourself: there are no good reasons for anything, just circumstances.

All of our people all over the country—except the pure-blooded Indians—are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionaries.

So much for Western origin stories, which depict our forebears as ferocious, fearless, and free. Unbound by social commitments and merciless toward their enemies, they seem to have stepped straight out of your typical action movie. Present-day political thought keeps clinging to these macho myths, such as the belief that we can treat the planet any way we want, that humanity will be waging war forever, and that individual freedom takes precedence over community.

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

See Sean Coyle, "Thomas Hobbes and the Intellectual Origins of Legal Positivism," Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 16 (2003), 243–270; Mark Murphy, "Was Hobbes a Legal Positivist?," Ethics 105 (1995), 846–873.

If we look into the matter of how Christian theology rose in the beginning, the Christian Church was always already earlier, and thus even now for each individual the Christian Church is earlier than theology.

when it comes to our sense of love, belonging, and worthiness, we are most radically shaped by our families of origin — what we hear, what we are told, and perhaps most importantly, how we observe our parents engaging with the world.

and therefore is a reasonable basis for interpretations and conclusions. 4. BEA involves three different kinds of examinations as part of crime scene analysis. What are they? 5. All behavior has underlying causes and origins. The origins may be conscious or subconscious, however. This is related to the principle of ____________? 6. The forgetting curve is associated with which principle of BEA? 7. Explain why profilers should be responsible for requesting case materials in writing.

I grew here; you flew here.

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

Quienes no conocen otras fuentes de verdad más puras, quienes no han seguido su curso hasta sus orígenes, están, y con razón, del lado de la Biblia y la Constitución y beben de ellas con reverencia y humildad. Pero aquellos que van más allá y buscan el origen del agua que gotea sobre el lago o la charca, se ciñen los lomos una vez más y siguen su peregrinación en busca del manantial.

Inde genus durum sumus, experiensque laborum, Et documenta damus qua simus origine nati. Or, as Raleigh rhymes it in his sonorous way,— "From thence our kind hard-hearted is, enduring pain and care, Approving that our bodies of a stony nature are.

It had come back to him simply that what he had been looking at all summer was a very rich and beautiful world, and that it had not all been made by sharp railroad men and stock-brokers.

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.

No greater humiliation, it seems to me, was meted out to any man than Montezuma; no race was ever more ruthlessly wiped out that the American Indian; no land was ever raped in a bloody and foul way than California was by the gold diggers. I blush to think of our origins—our hands are steeped in blood and crime.

En mi opinión, a ningún hombre se le ha sometido a una humillación mayor que a Moctezuma; ninguna raza ha sido exterminada más despiadadamente que la del indio americano; ninguna tierra ha sido violada de modo execrable e infame como lo fue California por los buscadores de oro. Siento vergüenza al pensar en nuestros orígenes: nuestras manos están empapadas de sangre y crimen.