Quotes about Origins
God created man and then woman but the atheist created himself.
- Anonymous
Whatever sins Christians engaged in the past, and they were extensive, the fact is that the most humane and decent countries in the world nearly all have Christian origins. That is not true of states that grew out of Islam.
- Dennis Prager
Oh, I grew up in Seattle.
- DeAndre Yedlin
I think everything that any actor does, I would assume, is shaped by how and where they grew up.
- Melissa McCarthy
Our actual ultimate root is in our humanity, not in our personal genealogy.
- Joseph Campbell
For whatever sets in motion societal activity originates in the intimate communal living of families in the same village or hamlet, in the same region or country.
- Abraham Kuyper
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.
- Mahatma Gandhi