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Origin Quotes

Heritage, genetics, and refusing to be defined by either.

One voice insists on being seen as African in origin and American in birth, both at once, while an actor pushes back against being labeled by ancestry at all. Together they complicate any simple idea of 'from,' a thread that continues in American.

We are African in origin and American in birth.

Quotes by Timothy Thomas Fortune

I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.

Quotes by Tahar Rahim

Stopping and returning illegal migrants to their countries of origin must become standard procedure.

Quotes by Sebastian Kurz

I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.

Quotes by Pierre Omidyar

Actor Quotes

Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.

Quotes by Peter R. Grant

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

Quotes by Paul Davies

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

Quotes by John Fiske

The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance.

Quotes by John Eccles

What is the origin of God?

Quotes by John Clayton

Adult Quotes

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

Quotes by Jean Philippe Rameau

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.

Quotes by James Fenton

Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again.

Quotes by Flavius Josephus

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.

Quotes by Ellsworth Huntington

I have thus given you a full statement of all that I know respecting the origin of Mormonism.

Quotes by Charles Anthon

African Quotes

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Quotes by Cesare Pavese

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

Quotes by Antoni Gaudi

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

Quotes by Albert J. Nock

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these origin quotes focus on?
Where people come from, in both a literal ancestral sense and a broader question of identity.
Why search for quotes about origin?
The idea of origin sits at the center of a lot of identity conversations, and these lines show several different ways people answer it.
Is there a quote about resisting a label based on heritage?
Yes, one actor insists on being seen simply as an actor, not defined narrowly by Arab or Algerian origin.
Does the collection touch on science as well as identity?
Yes, one line traces origin down to something literal — the genetic codes of inheritance running through everyone.
What other pages pair well with origin quotes?
The American collection explores similar questions of belonging and identity.

A geneticist's line ties it back to something more literal — codes of inheritance running under all of it. For more, see Actor or African.