Single Origin

Famous quotes containing the words single and/or origin:

“Everything was there,
Every single thing
Waiting was to bring,
Clear from hydrogen
All the way to men.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)