A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
Lakhdar Brahimi

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.
Emma Thompson

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey

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

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao Tzu

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
Robert Collier

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

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
Jean Rostand

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
Giorgio Vasari

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
Alfred Russel Wallace

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.
Cat Stevens

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

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.
Robert B. Laughlin

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
Edvard Munch

Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.
George G. Simpson

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
Ivan Pavlov

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Horace Mann

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand Russell