Quotes about Origins
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
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
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