Originate

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.

    “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)

    “Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political compaign.”
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)