Derivation Quotes
14 quotes by 12 authors
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The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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It is quite exciting, incidentally, to know that the Genesis account of the creation of mankind through its first parentage in Adam and Eve bears…
— Alvin Boyd Kuhn
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A heavenly location for the actions of the savior gods, including the death of Christ, would also have been influenced by most religions' ultimate derivation…
— Earl Doherty
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The beauty of a language is, generally judged by its soft or rigid, melodious or harsh, ring. Other aspects, such as the flexibility of derivation,…
— Kató Lomb
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MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has this passive derivation,…
— Kenny Smith
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A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't…
— Bill Viola
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TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an…
— Ambrose Bierce
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My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?
— Carroll O'Connor
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I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in…
— Thom Yorke
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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as…
— Jonathan Edwards
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I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them…
— Allison Pearson
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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as…
— Jonathan Edwards
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Now, somewhere inside me A little life is left, A new heartbeat has woken up, I came to know that I am alive That kind…
— Yashraj Suman
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12 authors contributed a total of 14 Derivation Quotes as follows: