Origin Quotes

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If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India,… — Aung San Suu Kyi
It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth. — Meg Cabot
...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin… — Jacques Lacan
What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit. — Paolo Bacigalupi
Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity… — Gore Vidal
The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original. — Rabindranath Tagore
We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage… — Carl Sagan
I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail; as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace… — J I Packer
A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things. — N. Scott Momaday
You canâ€™t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You canâ€™t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You… — Malcolm X
My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even… — Stephenie Meyer
And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in… — Sarah Dessen
The question of truth is really a question of memory, deep memory, for it deals with something prior to ourselves and can succeed in uniting… — Pope Francis
I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until… — Veronica Roth
The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we… — Sean M. Carroll
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. — Laozi
The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes… — William Hazlitt
Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated… — William Wordsworth

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