Origin Myth Quotes

#1. It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.

Meg Cabot

#2. It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

Jean M. Auel

#3. Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our thought, but our feelings and actions too, in a way which goes far beyond its official function as a biological theory.

Mary Midgley

#4. The origin behind myths and religion is human terror of annihilation. Human societies invented mythology and religion in order to militate against people's fear of living a mortal life. People fear time as a destroyer of human happiness, human beings, and human societies.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#5. Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

Pope Francis

#6. The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven't got a clue what lies ahead, they're always searching into the past for some sort of pattern ... to galvanise the nation or their supporters and put themselves on a pedestal to sound Churchillian or Rooseveltian.

Antony Beevor

#7. These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.

Peter Straub

#8. We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have never believed in them.

Jean Baudrillard

#9. Grace is a feminine quality.

Rajneesh

#10. In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#11. The more famous I get, the more I am tolerated, albeit with some head-shaking.

H.R. Giger

#12. When you live next to death ... you don't think about it anymore, you just try to encounter it as seldom as possible.

Vladislav Tamarov

#13. The mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth are traceable to the age of Ignorance, the mother of credulity.

Edward Clodd

#14. I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

Scoot McNairy

#15. After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past.

Loren Eiseley

#16. When I was young, many people didn't know what figure skating was. Some who knew of it thought of it as dancing on ice. But, as I entered international competitions and got good results, many people got to know more about it and came to cheer for me.

Kim Yuna

#17. I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.

Jack Zipes

#18. Compelled respect always implies fear.

A.S. Neill

#19. In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

Maria Edgeworth

#20. I glance at the red-stenciled words crossing my chest - HOLDEN CAULFIELD IS MY HOMEBOY.

Lia Riley

#21. There's an Inuit myth about the origin of the human race. There were two brothers, and the younger brother eventually gets changed into a woman. And that's how humans reproduced. And I thought, 'How could I really understand that?'

William T. Vollmann

#22. I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.

Neil Patrick Harris