Famous quotes containing the word originate:
“Or did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only ones it has reached?”
—Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 14:36.
“The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the welfare of all.”
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)
“Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.”
—Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)