Origins Quotes

In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

The best come from the worst

Great floods have flown From simple sources.

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

If you want to understand poetry,You have to go to its origin,If you want to understand the poet,You have to go to the Poet's home.

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every State which has risen to eminence have drawn their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source. It was because the children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered and displaced by the children of the Northern forests who were.

I was born a premature birth.My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse"My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert.

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.

Though leaves are many, the root is one.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

War is the mother of everything.

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

I grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.