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Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?

How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence.

I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like to be. Or, better, become the people we think we already are.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

I've always been really interested in how people's identities are shaped by where they come from and how they want to get away from where they come from.

We're social beings, and I need to know and remember where I came from.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.