My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
I think the origins of music have probably to do with magic and transcendence as well. — Justin Adams Copy Share Image
“Sirius was not merely a star to them. It was a symbol—a guide, a witness to the birth and death of worlds.” — Viktor Tonchev Copy Share Image
My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins. — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first. — Wojciech Jaruzelski Copy Share Image
“Ernest, your name shall be Hengest which is the Germanic name for a stallion.” — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew?” — John Milton Copy Share Image
I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future. — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that… — Gillian Welch Copy Share Image
“My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins,… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and… — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“... the pursuit of origins is a way of rescuing territory from death and oblivion, a reconquest that ought to be patient,… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“Wraeththu have been with me for the greater part of my life. My first rather ham-fisted (and half-finished) stories about them began… — Storm Constantine Copy Share Image
“Its culture: the fruit of its life, the product of its own efforts in thought and art. This culture is not international.… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the population of India could fit… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Deep within, there is something profoundly known, not consciously, but subconsciously. A quiet truth, that is not a version of something, but… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“Where are you from exactly?” he asked his state-based colleague, after exchanging first pleasantries. “Gulf Shores.” Paul replied. “I know we’re at… — Krzysztof Pacyński Copy Share Image
“Hence a certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
If you look at the origins of the postal service in the U.S., the founding fathers created it to protect democratic rights. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption. — Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Copy Share Image
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins. — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian).… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For decades, we've been trying to cook up the building blocks of life, in the lab, and recreate the origins of it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a… — Boyd Norton Copy Share Image
I would not apply the strategy of Calderon. I would look at the causes. Violence in Mexico has its origins in the… — Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Copy Share Image
“You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt,… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
From a personal perspective, I am disappointed that we have yet to really achieve a full understanding of the origins of life… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth. — David Christian Copy Share Image
Living in the woods is part of my origins, it's like when I was a kid. — Pavel Nedved Copy Share Image