Quotes about Origins
For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?
- John Milton
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
- Mark Twain
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
- Albert Camus
The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.
- George Whitefield
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
- Jesse Jackson
My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met 'em at the boat.
- Will Rogers
Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker.
- Madeleine L'Engle
God decided to create a species with whom he could have fellowship. Who are we to say that evolution was a dumb way to do it? It was an incredibly elegant way to do it.
- Francis Collins
On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.
- George W. Bush
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
- Edmund Burke