Origin Quotes

Being is born of not being.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

From What-is all the world of things was born But What-is sprang in turn from What-is-not.

Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc.

Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they were first modeled in clay? Any bone you look at, you always find fingerprints on it.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.

Every action has an ancestor of a thought.

My childhood was lonely. Both my parents were away a lot, working, and the maid basically raised me. And I think that's where a lot of my comedy comes from. Not only was the maid very funny and witty, but when my mother came home I'd use humour to try and get her attention. If I made mommy laugh, then maybe everything would be all right. I think that's where it [my comedy] all started.

All beings come from a mother's womb. We should have a clear realization of the oneness of all humanity.

The stream is always purer at its source.

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source.

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as if it has existed for a long time; it presupposes itself back into the distant past until all searching ends in the inexplicable origin.

Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it.

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.

I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.

My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.

You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.

All things flourish, and each returns to its source.

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

Rooster, maybe well crows, but the eggs still bears the chicken.

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

All love comes from the family.

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.

All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.

Our virtues and view spring from one root.

Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.

The biggest man you're ever going to see was once a baby.

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

All the stream that's roaring byCame out of a needle's eye.

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

Everything in the universe is created from something, which in turn is created from nothing.

When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

Mother's milk leads to everything.

You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world.

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.

When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing.