#Origin Quotes

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Every word was once a poem.”

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

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

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

“Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Every action has an ancestor of a thought.”

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

“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.”

“Innumerable changes of moods are yours, and they are uncontrolled by you. If you knew their origin, you would be able to dominate them. If you cannot localize your own changes, how can you localize that which formed you?”

“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.”

“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.”

“The branch might seem like the fruit's origin:In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit.”

“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.”

“Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us.”

“It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.”

“The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.”

“My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“All things flourish, and each returns to its source.”

“The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.”

“Our virtues and view spring from one root.”

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

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

“Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.”

“Fear is the mother of morality.”

“Discontent is the seed of ethics.”

“The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.”

“Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Being is born of not being.”

“Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.”

“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.”

“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.”