Quotes about Origins

I've been lucky to be born in Spain to a good family. But some team-mates reached the same position from a tough background. Football is equal, and it doesn't matter where you come from.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.

The Garden of Eden was somewhere in present-day Iraq. The turmoil and war [we are witnessing] in that part of the world... is occurring in the land where God established the first perfect civilization.

The beginning of all pain and suffering in the world started with one act of disobedience. Christian and non-Christian alike have inherited the consequences from our common ancestors, Adam and Eve—our polluted environment and flawed human nature.

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

If we look into the matter of how Christian theology rose in the beginning, the Christian Church was always already earlier, and thus even now for each individual the Christian Church is earlier than theology.

American music comes from the same tree, but sometimes we get to these places in history where we forget where things come from, and they get compartmentalized.

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

An atheist is someone who thinks (but doesn't believe) that nothing created everything.

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

The probability of life ever evolving on Earth was slim to none. It's insane that we're all walking around and talking.