Quotes About Origins

The first man was not a man, Don Javier tells me, entangled in deep laughter. The first man was a woman...

Compelling careers often have complex origins that reject the simple idea that all you have to do is follow your passion.

These interviews emphasize an important point: Compelling careers often have complex origins that reject the simple idea that all you have to do is follow your passion.

The boy whose first beginning nobody knew, and the girl who came into the world before her time.

were adopted by Nelly, isn't that right?

We are born at a given moment, in a given place, and like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are born.

For everyone in this occupation, the skyline of New York is a family tree.

And every philosophy of history bears in itself the seed of a theology.

In order for a field or discipline to progress and mature, it needs to reach a point where it can thoughtfully reflect on its origins, seek out a diverse set of perspectives on those reflections, and place that synthesis into a context that is useful for how the community pictures the future.

earliest examples are dated to the first century

Perhaps, then, the most surprising consequence of a visionary Theory of Everything is that it implies that on the grand scale the universe, including its origins and evolution, though extremely complicated, is not complex but in fact is surprisingly simple because it can be encoded in a limited number of equations, conceivably even just a single master equation.

Only in very recent times has a perspective inspired by science and "rationality" been brought to bear on these profound questions in the hope of providing a complementary framework for understanding their origins and providing possibly new insights and answers.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

A soul, if such a thing exists at all, doesn't filter into you at birth through your mother's umbilical cord. Souls come from the people who shape you as you grow.

The diamonds were lab made. Arrosa had insisted on the real thing, but I refused. Nobody had died digging my earrings out of the ground, and that mattered to me more than what Houston's elite would think.

Because the Arabic-Muslim accounts of the Prophet and early Islamic history are based on later materials, some scholars reasoned that the only way to know the true history is to use non-Muslim sources. One result was an account of the origin of Islam as a messianic Jewish sect in Palestine and North Arabia that much later was redefined as a new religion. In general, however, this effort has failed, because the non-Muslim sources are themselves fragmentary, poorly informed, and prejudiced.

The true rose, the miracle of nature, owed nothing to the hand of man.

I like the idea of a black sun; like a black hole in space, sucking everything into darkness, where we came from and where we're heading

Barrabás llegó a la familia por vía marítima, anotó la niña Clara con su delicada caligrafía.

I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland in New Zealand.

I was born in New Zealand, and I was raised in Australia, and I'm very proud of that.

I'm always going to be a New Zealand fighter. I'm a Kiwi, of course, and I've still got my New Zealand passport.

My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off.