Quotes About Origins

IT IS AS IF WE ALL CARRY in our makeup the effects of accidents that have befallen our ancestors," writes V. S. Naipaul,

But home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land.

home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can pick your family. In poker, you get five cards. Two are yours to keep: family and native land.

But home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land. I'm not talking bad about Eloe.

But home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family.

Casa tua non è il posto dove atterri ; è quello da cui decolli . Non è possibile scegliersi una casa, come non lo è scegliersi una famiglia. Nel poker ti toccano cinque carte. Tre le puoi scambiare, ma due te le devi tenere: la famiglia e la terra in cui sei nato.

home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land.

I don't have family in Mexico. Nothing. I'm just from Spain.

My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

People always ask me: 'Do you have black in you? Do you have Spanish in you?'

From a personal perspective, I am disappointed that we have yet to really achieve a full understanding of the origins of life on Earth. What was the spark that, billions of years ago, kickstarted the process of evolution that has brought us life as we know it today? I hope that we will get some answers to that in my lifetime.

It's hard to explain where ideas come from. They're an amalgamation of a million thoughts, dreams and sparks of imagination and it's difficult to pinpoint the exact moment of conception.

I was born in Spain, I know the culture there, and lived most of my life there, but I have Malian origins too. For me it's a beautiful thing that I can have both. I can be in both countries, speak the language, blend in in two cultures.

I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That's the extent of my connection to Iran.

A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.

My mom and dad did something special when they made me.

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.

I don't think we interbred with the Neanderthals at all. There are some people who think that there was some level of interbreeding. I think that we look so biologically different, that we looked and we acted so different, and we culturally were so different that we would not have had interbreeding between two species.

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us.

My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.