Top 438 Origins Quotes & Sayings

Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it.

Living in the woods is part of my origins, it's like when I was a kid.

When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost every mythology sees the origins of life coming out of water. And, curiously, that's true. It's amusing that the origin of life out of water is in myths and then again, finally, in science, we find the same thing. It's exactly so.

Within your physical atoms the origins of all consciousness still sings.

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.

It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone.

The idea that there is only one way to be reconciled with God has its origins in the Old Testament.

It is my conviction that if any professional biologist will take adequate time to examine carefully the assumptions upon which the macro-evolution doctrine rests, and the observational and laboratory evidence that bears on the problem of origins, he/she will conclude that there are substantial reasons for doubting the truth of this doctrine. Moreover, I believe that a scientifically sound creationist view of origins is not only possible, but it is to be preferred over the evolutionary one.

What I'm trying to do is to make films - 'I Origins' is one of them - with the new generation of filmmakers. I want to support that.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and modern influences would presently bring me up to date and reveal how antiquated my origins were. To turn away from those origins, however, has always seemed to me an utter impossibility. It would be a treason to my first consciousness to un-Jew myself.

If you look at the origins of the postal service in the U.S., the founding fathers created it to protect democratic rights.

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.

The origins of Judeo-Christianity are to be found in Egypt.

I have previously been a very enthusiastic consumer, and I didn't think about the origins of garments enough.

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics. The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead, at the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.

Don't re-open old wounds in order to examine their origins. Leave them healed.

I was struck during the Brexit debate by how little discussion there was about the origins of the concept of a united Europe.

Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility.

Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself as the world

I just love rolling up my sleeves and doing research, and I especially love doing research on the origins of folklore and the origins of mythology.

It's important to understand the origins of ISIS were in the chaos of Iraq and Libya, and the origins of Al Qaeda were in Afghanistan.

I've come from an area where people's parents aren't so financially secure, so I link my origins to that struggle.

No one knows the origins of their metal coat hangers.

Originality is going back to origins.

When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars.

Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.

The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous.

I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.

Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

I think the origins of music have probably to do with magic and transcendence as well.

I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.

It just so happened that the sound I've developed has the Memphis origins to it that made Drake wanted to work with it.

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

I feel a great kinship with my origins, even though I only learned a few words of Arabic.

Walking runway has been something I didn't even think would be a possibility in my lifetime with my circumstances and my origins.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

What a great poem teaches you - and it's not intellectual at all - is the resonance in the language that's heard there. This goes back to the very origins of poetry and to the very origins of language.

We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of giving up on Africa, saying we're Americans. We are Americans. I'm not arguing that point. So are the Italians. So are the Germans. So are the Jews. We're Americans with an historical geography of origins outside of the United States as all people, maybe except the indigenous Americans who came here so long ago, who have generations of people whose historical origins are right here but whose initial historical origins are somewhere in Asia.

I find a tremendous receptivity among the public for the subject matter of, 'Where did we come from and how did we get here?' People are thirsty and hungry for information on our origins. I feel a responsibility as a major figure in the area... to convey to the public the knowledge of human origins in a way that is understandable to them.

The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis.

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

Pursued by our origins... we all are.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.

We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.

It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

Yes, the natural sciences are telling us a great deal about human origins, the origins of our species the origins of our minds; we're on our way to explaining a large part of it. I'll accept an answer provided only by such means as obtaining and exploring, analyzing and arguing over the evidence - not because of a scribe's myopic view of the subject written 500 years before the birth of Christ!

Know that originally none of us are from Earth. We all have natural origins off the planet. We are having human experience, but one thing we're going to have to come to understand - and I know that's a lot for some people - is that our heritage is within the galactic origin. We are going to come into alignment with that by remembering our individual origins - and that's going to be a very important part of our enlightenment process.

If you’re looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.

Light may be shed on man and his origins.

From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom.