Quotes About Origins
DNA'm?zdaki karbon, diÅŸlerimizdeki kalsiyum, kan?m?zdaki demir, içtiÄŸimiz sudaki oksijen kendi içine çökmüÅŸ bir y?ld?zdan yap?lm??t?r. Bu da biziy?ld?z tozu yapar.
~ Carl Sagan
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Sin and evil have their origins in the human will, not in God or in God's plan. At the same time, when sin and evil do enter into the life of the world, they do not become constitutive of what is means to be human (or any other creature).
~ Terence E. Fretheim
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Can you remember the womb? How, in the moments before birth, The lines were washed from the map That told the route you'd come?
~ Terrance Hayes
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Fairy tales have their origins in reality, Auris. In this world, if not in the one you think you came from. Nothing comes from a void; all things have some connection to truth.
~ Terry Brooks
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Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies.
~ Terry Pratchett
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Well, I suppose there's no place like home," she said. "No," said Granny Weatherwax, still looking thoughtful. "No. There's a billion places like home. But only one of 'em's where you live.
~ Terry Pratchett
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This is Masher,' said Feeney. 'His father was a wild boar, his mother was surprised.
~ Terry Pratchett
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There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be beginnings. The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is fired - but that's not the start. The play, the game, the war is just a little window on a ribbon of events that may extend back thousands of years. The point is, there's always something before. It's always a case of Now Read On.
~ Terry Pratchett
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A shepherd's crown, not a royal one. A crown for someone who knew where she had come from. A crown for the lone light zigzagging through the night sky, hunting for a single lost lamb. A crown for the shepherd who was there to herd away the predators.
~ Terry Pratchett
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Well, I suppose there's no place like home,' she said. 'No,' said Granny Weatherwax, still looking thoughtful. 'No, there's a billion places like home. But only one of 'em's where you live.
~ Terry Pratchett
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It was, in fact, one of those places that exist merely so that people can have come from them. The universe is littered with them: hidden villages, windswept little towns under wide skies, isolated cabins on chilly mountains, whose only mark on history is to be the incredibly ordinary place where something extraordinary started to happen. Often there is no more than a little plaque to reveal that, against all gynecological probability, someone very famous was born halfway up a wall.
~ Terry Pratchett
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If you left off traditions because you didn't know why they started you'd be no better than a foreigner.
~ Terry Pratchett
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But that's what our ancestors did, Millie. This is where we all come from. Some part of you, some ancient memory deep in your brain, recognizes this continent as home.
~ Tess Gerritsen
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Catgut is a type of surgical thread made from the intestines of cows or sheep." "So why do they call it catgut?" asked Rizzoli. "It goes back to the Middle Ages, when gut strings were used on musical instruments. The musicians referred to their instruments as their kit, and the strings were called kitgut. The word eventually became catgut.
~ Tess Gerritsen
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Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.
~ Alvar Aalto
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Just because my parents left Ramannagudem does not mean that I do not hail from Telangana.
~ Vijayashanti
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I didn't come from wrestling. I didn't come from boxing or kickboxing.
~ Travis Browne
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My father belongs to Muzaffarnagar. Though I was born and brought up in Delhi, we, as a family, are known as U.P. wallahas.
~ Javed Ali
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People ask where I'm from, and I say 'Los Angeles.' Then they ask again. 'Well, my parents are from Korea.'
~ Chloe Kim
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I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday.
~ Mary H.K. Choi
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I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.
~ Zinedine Zidane
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It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.
~ Benedict Wong
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The cosmology of the ancient world was telling you about the nature of life here and now. Genesis is not about the origins of life. There were many other creation stories current in Israel at that time and no one was required to believe in that one.
~ Karen Armstrong
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daughter of the Earl of Strathmore and Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck, your mother
~ Karen Harper
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