Quotes about Origins

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Principles are not conclusions but starting points, principia. When

Britannia became the land of the Angles or Ængla Land.

There's been an incredible censorship in America and throughout the world, but particularly in America where students aren't even allowed to critically think about evolution, the issue of origins; they are not allowed to hear other points of view; they are taught incorrectly about science and taught that evolution is fact.

If we discount the account of creation, we remove the significance of Christmas.

My first point seems overwhelmingly simple: that the accidents of birth and geography determine to a very large extent to what faith we belong.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its existence; Christianity, however, cannot explain its existence without Judaism.

Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots.

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.