#origins

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #origins




If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.


Wendell Berry


#been #boy #bright #cut #deep

I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.


Adam Pascal


#been #five #gotten #i #into

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.


Malcolm X


#origins #racism #roots #originality

every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. (p. 18)


Alexander McCall Smith


#homeland #love-of-country #origins #love

The final standards do a good job of setting the bar for a more environmentally responsible kind of farming but, as perhaps was inevitable as soon as bureaucratic and industrial thinking was brought to bear, many of the philosophical values embodied in the word "organic" - the sorts of values expressed by Albert Howard - did not survive the federal rule making process.


Michael Pollan


#nature

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.


Alfred Korzybski


#human #lies #noises #obvious #origins

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.


James S. Coleman


#dependence #his #insofar #only #opportunities

I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.


Bruce Oldfield


#come #down #ever #here #humble

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.


Matthew Fox


#act #dualism #healing #heals #here

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


Sonia Sotomayor


#cultural #difference #differences #experience #gender