Origin Quotes

“The roads to salvation are many.
Forgiveness is not the only path.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Langdon watched the phone plummet down and splash into the dark waters of the Nervión River. As it disappeared beneath the surface, he felt a pang of loss, staring back after it as the boat raced on.

“Robert,” Ambra whispered, “just remember the wise words of Disney’s Princess Elsa.”

Langdon turned. “I’m sorry?”

Ambra smiled softly. “Let it go.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“We could be on opposite sides of the world, but you would still be mine, as I am yours.”
― Nicole Castroman, Blackhearts

“Technically, everyone is talking to me. I’m able to partition myself quite easily. You are hearing my default voice—the voice that Edmond prefers—but others are hearing other voices or languages. Based on your profile as an American academic male, I chose my default male British accent for you. I predicted that it would breed more confidence than, for example, a young female with a southern drawl.''

Did this thing just call me a chauvinist?”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“You take far too many chances," she murmured.
"And you don't take nearly enough. I propose to change that.”
― Nicole Castroman, Blackhearts

“I watched her until I could no longer keep my eyes open. I then counted each breath she took until I could no longer remember what the last number was. And when that happened, I repeated her name, over and over again, until it was the last thing I thought before I slipped into oblivion.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Origin

“From birth to death and further on

As we were born and introduced into this world,
We had a gift hard to express by word
And somewhere in our continuous road,
It kind of lost it sense and turned.

There was that time we sure remember,
When everything was now and 'till forever
Children with no worries and no regrets,
The only goal was making a few friends.

But later on everything has changed,
By minds that had it all arranged
To bring the people into stress,
Into creating their own mess.

We have been slaved by our own mind,
Turned into something out of our kind
Slowly faded away from the present time,
Forced to believe in lies, in fights and crime.

They made it clearly a fight of the ego,
A never ending war that won't just go
They made it a competitive game,
To seek selfish materialistic fame.

They turned us one against eachother,
Man against man, brother against brother
Dividing us by religion and skin color,
Making us fight to death over a dollar.

Making us lose ourselves in sadly thoughts,
Wasting our days by living in the past
Depressed and haunted by the memories,
And yet still hoping to fly in our dreams.

Some of us tried learning how to dance,
Step after step, giving our soul a new chance
Some of us left our ego vanish into sounds,
Thus being aware of our natural bounce.

Some tried expressing in their rhymes,
The voice of a generation which never dies
They reached eternity through poetry
Leaving the teachings that shall fulfill the prophecy

Others have found their way through spirituality,
Becoming conscious of the human duality
Seeking the spiritual enlightenment,
Of escaping an ego-oriented fighting

Science, philosophy, religion,
Try to explain the human origin.
Maybe changes are yet to come,
And it shall be better for some

Death's for the spirit not an end,
But a relieving of the embodiment
So I believe that furthermore,
We'll understand the power of our soul

But leaving behind all we know,
And all that we might not yet know
It all resumes to that certain truth,
That we all seek to once conclude.”
― Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache

“Do he return to the sea?"
They both knew they were no longer discussing the book. "That remains to be seen. There might be something that could tempt him to stay.”
― Nicole Castroman, Blackhearts

“Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.”
― Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World

“She was unable to prevent the tears shimmering in her blue eyes, and Teach muttered something under his breath. "Why are you always so sad?" he asked.
Noting the tenderness in his features, it was difficult to speak around the lump in her throat. "I'm not."
"Yes, you are. When we are married, I shall make you smile, every day for the rest of your life.”
― Nicole Castroman, Blackhearts

“Work. Good, honest work, whether it’s working with your hands to create an artwork, or manual labour, brings forth a sense of divinity at play. The only prerequisite is that whatever the work is, it is done sincerely and in congruence with the soul’s true origin and intent, then, without any effort, one experiences a flow, wherein one feels a part of the plan of the entire universe.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Matha Alayna ‘an naf’al?” he asked aloud. What should we do?

The boys stood in a circle, staring silently at the corpse. Then they reacted like teenagers around the world. They pulled out their phones and began snapping photos to text to their friends.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“If you intend to look like a street urchin and smell like a sow, I shall have to call you something else." He looked Teach over from head to toe, noting his shabby black hair and beard. "You're no dandy. I'll call you Blackbeard. Welcome aboard.”
― Nicole Castroman, Blackhearts

“Mungu alilibariki taifa la Israeli katika misingi ya kidini na si katika misingi ya kisiasa au misingi ya kihistoria; na asili ya dini ya Kikristo ni kutoka katika taifa hilo ambalo Biblia imelitaja kama taifa teule la Mwenyezi Mungu. Mgogoro wa Israeli na Palestina ulianzishwa na Israeli mwenyewe. Yakobo alipokea baraka iliyokuwa si ya kwake kwa kutumia hila ya Rebeka. Baraka ya Yakobo ilikuwa ya Esau.”
― Enock Maregesi

“No one gave us life, we're the products of an explosion.”
― Dmitry Bakin

“O America, I am your Liberty, and you are that huddled mass yearning to breathe free. I am your Lighthouse, the One beaconing [yea, beckoning], and you are that wayfarer—strayed, grayed, and frayed … Now, return, you tempest-tost; lift up your gaze to the lighted torch aloft the golden door and come home.”
― Maurice Suwa, The Lamb's Epistle: The Living Lord's Final Word to a Dying World

“Will you please join us for supper this evening?" Teach asked. "I cannot endure another meal alone with Miss Patience."
"And if I choose not to?"
Teach snorted. "I'll come to your room and drag you to supper myself."
"You wouldn't dare make a scene to that extent."
"When it comes to you, Anne, I would dare a lot of things.”
― Nicole Castroman, Blackhearts

“Originea sa cea mai directă se afla în declarația că era un rus. Orice aștepta el de la viață urma să i se dea, ori să i se refuze, doar prin această filiație. Imensa familie suferea acum din cauza disensiunilor interne, iar el se sustrăgea mental din diferend, așa cum orice om de bun-simț s-ar abține de la a lua partea cuiva într-o violentă ceartă de familie.”
― Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes

“Poverty is the origin of invention”
― Sunday Adelaja

“People should not be judged by origin, affluence or spoken words, but
primarily by their deeds.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset”
― Michael Harris

“All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external.”
― Will Advise

“We're used to picturing the genealogy of a text like a family tree: one original at the base ascending like a single trunk, with copies branching off it, and copies of copies branching off them. And so on throughout the generations. We imagine an original from which all the generations of diversity spring as scribes make revisions and introduce copying errors. But the reverse seems to be the case when it comes to the origins of the Bible: the further you go back in its literary history, the less uniformity there is. Scriptural traditions are rooted, quite literally, in diversity.”
― Timothy Beal, The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book

“Celui qui n'appartient à aucun lieu spécifique ne peut, en réalité, retourner nulle part.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words

“Never forget your roots, it's the foundation that builds your existence and the secret to your future.”
― Cherry MPIO

“Imagine standing in a room in a large museum. As you look around the dimly lit gallery, you begin to recognize shapes: a basket, an arrow, a beautifully decorated carving, a shield. Some of the objects are unrecognizable to you. What if these objects could speak? What would they tell you about themselves? How have they been used? Where did they come from? How did they get to this museum? Whom do they belong to?”
― Ari Berk

“Everything has an origin in it, and animals are no exception.”
― Ari Berk & Carolyn Dunn, Coyote Speaks: Wonders of the Native American World

“No revolution, no political change, is ever born from immaculate conception.”
― Mike Klepper

“Time is the material from which life is made”
― Sunday Adelaja