Quotes About Origins

Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.

From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

My grandfather sold insurance to King Farouk of Egypt. And my savta's parents helped found the city of Tel Aviv in 1906. Our family name used to be Mizrahi, but they changed it to Mayron, which means 'happy water' in Hebrew.

I actually got discovered in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by a man who worked at a place that sold barbecue sandwiches!

The common ancient ancestor of mulluses and chordates could not possibly have possessed a camera eye, so quite clearly they have evolved independently. The solution has been arrived at by completely different routes.

America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.

So what did it matter where she came from? Who-or what-her parents were? Everyone's family was messed up in some way including my own. And she was still the same Ariane.

Every human is born of collusion. We come into this world the result of a covenant. Sometimes made of love. Sometimes of circumstance. But almost always made in secret.

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - 'Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband's parents' house, or at my parents' house?'

She was born of space. And starlight. But she bled wrath. And vengeance.."[From Current Work In Progress]

For, adds Barba, those who think that metals were created at the beginning of of the world are grossly mistaken: metals 'grow' in mines.

People often belittle the place where they were born.

But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.

People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.

Things that happen before you are born still affect you... And people who come before your time affect you as well. We move through places everyday that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time - we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true.

Things that happen before you are born still affect you, she said. And people who come before your time affect you as well. We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time -- we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true.

One time her father told her Shakespeare was really an Arab. 'Just look at his name: It's an Anglicization of Sheikh Zubayr,' he said with a straight face.

Even the air of this country has a story to tell about warfare. It is possible here to lift a piece of bread from a plate and, following it back to its origins, collect a dozen stories concerning war – how it affected the hand that pulled it out of the oven, the hand that kneaded the dough, how war impinged upon the field where the wheat was grown.

ahí está el padre acurrucado casi para que yo encontrara vida y pudiera existir allí donde no estuvo (de La Cena)

Fathers - half of anyone's life seemed to be about who fathered them.

It started small, as such fates often do.

I would have thought only that the money must have come from a strongroom somewhere, a chest full of gold like a duke would have or a tsar. I wouldn't have thought of it coming from quiet men in plain coats who didn't ride in carriages.