Origin Quotes

What is the origin of God?

— John Clayton

“Time is the material from which life is made”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Poverty is the origin of invention”

— Sunday Adelaja

A man is the origin of his action.

— Aristotle

“origin: it is narrowing!”

— Dan Brown

Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

— Lynn Nottage

The origin of each story is unique.

— Kate DiCamillo

Originality is a return to the origin.

— Antonio Gaudi

As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself.

— William C. Brown

“but then again, they were like baby Einsteins on crack.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

— Charles Darwin

It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.

— Meg Cabot

I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.

— Pierre Omidyar

I personally adore origin stories - they're so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character.

— Keri Russell

From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all.

— Laozi

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

— Richard Dawkins

The United States gave me opportunities that my country of origin could not: freedom of the press and complete freedom of expression.

— Jorge Ramos

To be clear, we do not open investigations based on race, or ethnicity, or national origin. But when we open investigations into…

— Christopher A. Wray

“Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how…

— Christina Baker Kline

I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the…

— Craig Thompson

Migrants make huge contributions to both their host countries and countries of origin. They take jobs that local workforces cannot fill, boosting…

— Antonio Guterres

To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity;…

— John Burroughs

What the hell is happening to the world when those who were at the origin of... international humanitarian law start questioning in…

— Peter Maurer

Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other…

— James Russell Lowell

Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of…

— Martin Jacques

We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but…

— John Daniel

There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing.…

— J. M. Coetzee

Whether the origin of 'A Course In Miracles' is diabolical or merely psychological, the book proclaimed an anti-gospel of unreality and bred…

— Michael J. Knowles

“an origin, I repeat, is not confined to the past: it is a whirlwind, in Benjamin's very fine image, a chasm in…

— Anonymous

I do not have the slightest bit of racism in me. I do not judge people with regards to the colour of…

— Marine Le Pen

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived…

— Adam Ferguson

Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's…

— Burt Rutan

“For many thousands of years, human beings have wondered and asked questions about the distant past and the remote future of our…

— Dan Hooper

“All through the winter months, Rose kept up the practice of sitting by the fire with Peter and a book telling him…

— Christopher Daniel Mechling

“The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree.I believe this simile largely…

— Charles Darwin

“The publication of the Darwin and Wallace papers in 1858, and still more that of the 'Origin' in 1859, had the effect…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“But I did not bring the Wild Boy to England simply so he could learn from us. I also brought him here…

— Christopher Daniel Mechling

The origin is nameless; the origin is absolutely quiet, it is not whirring about making noise. Creation is something that is most…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for…

— Stephen W. Hawking