Quotes About Where We Came From

#1. For some reason, humans have this funny thing about where we came from - it always has far more emotional weight than where we are.

Chris Milk

#2. Let's never forget where we came from and we'll find peace in our destiny.

Milton Manrique Juarez

#3. In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

Jack Horner

#4. Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Fannie Lou Hamer

#5. To say what or where we came from has nothing to do with what or where we came from. We do not come from there any more, but only from each word that proceeds out of the mouth of the unnamed. And yet sometimes it is our only way of pointing to who we are.

W.S. Merwin

#6. In changing times, we should all lend our support to the independent retailers. Without independent retailers, many of the biggest names in music would still be undiscovered. They break new artists and movements. We all know the industry is changing, but we can't forget where we came from.

Gorilla Zoe

#7. In a technological world facing many global problems, everyone needs to have a basic understanding of science. And knowing where we came from and helps us to make decisions about the future.

Wyken Seagrave

#8. But there are some things we shouldn't forget, and mostly they add up to where we came from and how we got here and the stories we told ourselves on the way.

Terry Pratchett

#9. For me, what I try to heal is the major thing that I think all of us go through, where we came from. From our family of origin.

Giancarlo Esposito

#10. Have we just been placed here by some unknown creator or force without any clue as to where we came from, why we are here, and where we are going? The answer is "no." We do have a code. We do have a key ... the Bible.

Billy Graham

#11. Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was what I felt about the Pittsburgh Steelers and where we came from, the history of us to that point.

Joe Greene

#12. Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

Kenneth R. Miller

#13. We should feel empowered by where we came from and who we are, not hide it. It is important to acknowledge that everything we do affects our ancestors as much as they have affected us.

Lorin Morgan-Richards

#14. It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about.

Steven Squyres

#15. All these activities are forms of adult play that also serve as ceremonial acts of remembering - who we are, where we came from, how nature works.

Michael Pollan

#16. When I noticed that some of the gray-haired ladies had tears in their eyes, I understood for the first time why music matters so much, how it reminds us of who we are and where we came from, of all the good times and the sadness, too.

Dean Koontz

#17. The attitude among the people I knew was, 'Fleur wants to be a singer' but it was never, 'Go for it. You can do it.' Everyone was cynical because we'd never seen anyone where we came from do it.

Fleur East

#18. WE all need a story of where we came from and how we got here.

Monique Truong

#19. Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.

J. C. Watts

#20. People must belong to a tribe; they yearn to have a purpose larger than themselves. We are obligated by the deepest drives of the human spirit to make ourselves more than animated dust, and we must have a story to tell about where we came from, and why we are here.

E. O. Wilson

#21. I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.

Jason Mraz

#22. Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

Eric Hoffer

#23. A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

Woodrow Wilson

#24. An agnostic Buddhist would not regard the Dharma as a source of answers to questions of where we came from, where we are going, what happens after death. He would seek such knowledge in the appropriate domains: astrophysics, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, etc.

Stephen Batchelor

#25. Understanding who we are, where we came from, and why we are upon the earth places upon each of us a great responsibility both to learn how to learn and to learn to love learning.

David A. Bednar

#26. When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but I wanted to apply these ideas to something from the local sound; something that had identity, that would say who we were and where we came from.

Steven Sater

#27. The fact that we once knew each other in Fifth Ward, Houston, Texas, and that we were both still alive and ambulatory, was a miracle in itself. Where we came from he's dead was as common a phrase as he's sick or he's saved. People died in our world with appalling regularity.

Walter Mosley

#28. In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can all follow the tradition of where we came from. We need to keep referring to the pioneers.

Nas

#29. When we start to talk about gurus, we're talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, and where we're going. They are not imprisoned in a selfish or self-centered view of the universe.

Krishna Das

#30. I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.

Greg Graffin

#31. We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we call life.

Frederick Lenz

#32. If we don't remember where we came from, we'll go back there.

David McGee

#33. The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.

Sam Kean

#34. I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.

Carl Sagan

#35. To some extent, it doesn't matter who we are or where we came from - what kind of family brought us into this world,' Josie said softly. 'We become who we were meant to be, and all those other influences fall away.

Sharon Shinn

#36. I like the idea of a black sun; like a black hole in space, sucking everything into darkness, where we came from and where we're heading

Irvine Welsh

#37. I was raised up where folks looked to the hills, only up where we came from you hadn't chance to look much higher, we were that near the top of the ridge.

Louis L'Amour

#38. There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of.

John Cleese

#39. It's finding out where we came from that helps guide us to where we are going.

Mona Rodriguez

#40. Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about who we are, where we came from and where we are going.

Michael Shermer

#41. It is said, and it is true, that just before we are born, a cavern angel puts his finger to our lips and says, "Hush, don't tell what you know." This is why we are born with a cleft on our upper lips and remembering nothing of where we came from".

Roderick MacLeish

#42. The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we're bound.

David Mutti Clark

#43. I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.

George Smoot

#44. We'll run this planet as we please, and if you don't like it, go back where we came from.

P. J. O'Rourke

#45. My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came from, from a woman's womb.

Jay Rock

#46. If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going ?

Justin Brown

#47. It is clear, then, that whatever genetic heritage we have, it is not a straitjacket that traps us forever in the "beastly" ways of our forebears. Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.

Jerry A. Coyne

#48. The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.

David R. Brower

#49. Nobody knows what tribes we came from nor what our tribal inheritance is nor what the mysteries were in the woods where the people lived that we came from. All we know is that we do not know. We know nothing about what happens to us in the nights.

Ernest Hemingway,

#50. No matter what happens to you in life, you just roll with it. And then, when we went back to shoot Eclipse, I went to Quileute and taught some acting to the kids, and just got to spend some time in the community, which was great because it gave me an idea of where Emily came from.

Tinsel Korey

#51. 'Anna Nicole' came from Guess Jeans; Paul Marciano and me and one of his friends, we were sitting around coming up with a stage name, and that's where that came from.

Anna Nicole Smith

#52. We wake out of our dreams and wonder where the blood in our hands came from.

Charles D'Ambrosio

#53. I've raised three kids: my wife and I have three kids. I've observed through direct contact the adults they are now is partially the product of where they came from and what we did. With them growing up, but partially how they were wired at birth.

Chris Hadfield

#54. When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.

Dietrich Mateschitz

#55. And the seasons they go 'round and 'round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game.

Joni Mitchell

#56. we sometimes carry the sacred fire in our hearts, but have no idea where that flame came from.

Paulo Coelho

#57. This wasn't about knowledge but about the aura knowledge exuded, the places it came from, which were almost all outside the world we lived in now, yet were still within the ambivalent space where all historical objects and ideas reside.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#58. I also think that there is a huge failure in the American education system to educate Americans about where we, our system, our government, came from. And to some extent this failure is shared in places like Britain and Canada and Australia.

Michael Scheuer

#59. In this day and age when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from - where it has been, and where it is at today.

Mike Johanns

#60. My sons last summer, they won a trophy from their surfing camp and they came home and went right over to the shelf and put it up next to my Oscar. That's where we put our trophies.

Geena Davis

#61. The now reality is our only home, where everything already is. There is no other home we came from, and we might think we shall return to.

Raphael Zernoff

#62. I came from the last couple of years in a generation where we didn't have a computer around so we didn't waste as much time on the internet as we do now so I had large chuncks of time which to devote to doing something.

John Mayer

#63. How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson

Aberjhani

#64. I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.

Mary Steenburgen

#65. We don't know much about Otrera from the old stories. Those Ancient Greek dudes didn't care where Otrera came form or what made her tick. Why would that be?
1) She was a woman.
2) She was a scary woman.
3) She was a scary woman who killed Ancient Greek dudes.

Rick Riordan

#66. It was only a wasp,' I say, 'there are plenty more where they came from.' This is not good enough for Tomomi: 'There are plenty more humans where we come from, so does that make homicide okay?

David Mitchell

#67. We're headed for Aleph-7. Panty raid. New slang term for the type of operation whose main object was to gather Tauran artifacts, and prisoners if possible. I tried to find out where the term came from, but the one explanation I got was really idiotic.

Joe Haldeman

#68. The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States is better off here than they would be where they came from.

John Wayne

#69. I intend to make America strong again. I'm going to be the champion of the middle class, where I came from. If you make me your president, our best days are ahead. I'm ready to be commander-in-chief, ladies and gentlemen, on day one. I intend to win a war that we cannot afford to lose.

Lindsey Graham

#70. I'm here, little one," came a voice made for coaxing
secrets from the heart. "Sleep now. We'll talk when it's
time."
"Yes, sir," she said, now knowing where she was. She
surrendered to sleep again.
The most familiar darkness ... her darkness ... she was
home.

Tiffany Reisz

#71. We're LOVE! We came straight outta LOVE & that's where we're headed. From love to love - is what we call LIFE! Love is the only truth & love is what we've got. So spread LOVE wherever you are! I LOVE YOU ALL!! YOU'RE AWESOME!

Abhishek Kumar

#72. My experience is at The Groundlings Theater, where we created different characters and did sketch comedy. And sometimes the characters were outrageous, but they always came from a real place. So even working there, we had to create characters from the people that we knew.

Cheryl Hines

#73. Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us so that we could die up front and then live. Jesus Christ wants to take us to places where only dead men and women can go.

Erwin McManus

#74. We're trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what it's of and who it's of.

Anthony Weiner

#75. We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

Marcy Kaptur

#76. Across the river were two clouds in your eyes; and my kisses floated ascend from the heights of the sacred mountain -
there in the valley, where uncrowned hope of green fields and saffron came from flowers - delicate reverberations of rock walls we listened to our words of love.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#77. In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.

Marie Curie

#78. In the 80s, in the cover band I was in, we'd slip in original material. If you didn't say anything about it, people just didn't care. Sometimes they'd ask where that came from and you'd tell them, but you still had to play a bunch of Willie, Waylon, and Merle.

Andy Wilkinson

#79. A Strange Eastern Light "During the time of King Herod, Wise Men from the east came and asked, 'Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.'" - Matthew 2:1

Seth Grahame-Smith

#80. You and I are walking in the snow. "Why are you walking backwards?" I ask. You point in the direction we came from. "So they'll think that's where I'm going." You point to where we're going. "And that's where I'm from.

David Levithan

#81. The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.

Jon Meacham

#82. We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.

Charles Dickens

#83. I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we spoke black. When I was a kid growing up, where I came from, it was hip to be black. To be white was kind of square.

Jerry Leiber

#84. Right from the beginning, we were born into a world where the ego rules, but when we came to God and received the new birth, we entered a world where love rules

Sunday Adelaja

#85. Continuity was the kind of place where anybody who came into the city from out of town to deliver some work could come over and hang out and we'd go down and have a few drinks.

Ralph Reese

#86. Arista," the wizard said, "sharks don't eat seafood because they like it, but because chickens don't swim. We all do the best we can with the tools we have, but at some point you have to ask yourself where the tools came from.

Michael J. Sullivan

#87. We all hurt. We all love. We're the same. And your past, who you live with, where you came from, it doesn't have to matter. You're creating your own future, and I want to see where the road forward takes you.

Elle Kennedy

#88. Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.

Audre Lorde

#89. Paul Gauguin asked, "whence do we come? What are we? Where are we going?" Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I came from my room, I'm a kid with big plans, and I'm going outside! See ya later! Say, who the heck is Paul Gauguin anyway?

Bill Watterson

#90. I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back.

Olivia Thirlby

#91. Missus called out to Tomfry, said keep it down, a lady shouldn't know where her bacon comes from. When we heard that, I told Aunt-Sister, missus didn't know what end her bacon went in and what end it came out. Aunt-Sister slapped me into yesterday.

Sue Monk Kidd

#92. It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

Idris Elba

#93. The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially.

Ann Veneman

#94. It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and radio was country music. So I can kind of see where all the influences came from.

Lionel Richie

#95. We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.

Evan Parker

#96. We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives and for there to be morality in the first place.

Rebecca Goldstein

#97. We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

Jill Tarter

#98. I've started a project called Planet Art. The purpose will be to remind people where I really believe we came from, which was a creative planet, and that everybody can be autonomous through their art.

Meredith Brooks

#99. Their imperfect record at awards shows was disappointing, sure, but the best prize of all came when, on February 4, 1986, President Ronald Reagan name-checked and quoted directly from the movie - where we're going, we don't need roads - in his State of the Union address.

Caseen Gaines

#100. What I love about Gaga is her story, where she came from. Before she made it, before anyone knew who she was, I knew who she was and, to see her finally make it, I was so happy. If we were to work together that would be cool.

Janet Jackson