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All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came.

John F. Kennedy

. . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

Niccolo Machiavelli

For know that all the inferior Creatures when hurt do cry and send forth the complaints to their Maker or grand Fountain whence they proceeded.

Thomas Tryon

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

James Baldwin

We've come a long way and we still have a ways to go. The biggest danger is that some don't know from whence we came.

James Wells

Confidence, like the soul, never returns, whence it has departed.

Publius Syrus

Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

Omar Khayyam

ABRACADABRA. By _Abracadabra_ we signify An infinite number of things. 'Tis the answer to What? and How? and Why? And Whence? and Whither? - a word whereby The Truth (with the comfort it brings) Is open to all who grope in night, Crying for Wisdom's holy light. Whether the word is a verb or a noun Is knowledge beyond my reach. I only know that.

Ambrose Bierce

Her priority is to identify the causal factors, in terms of from whence the children came and why they are there.

Dr Omar Davies

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

Boethius

ROAD, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go. All roads, howsoe'er they diverge, lead to Rome, Whence, thank the good Lord, at least one leads back home. Borey the Bald.

Ambrose Bierce

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

The boy stood on the burning deck - / Whence all but he had fled.

Felicia Hemans

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

James Arthur Baldwin

T, the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, was by the Greeks absurdly called _tau_. In the alphabet whence ours comes it had the form of the rude corkscrew of the period, and when it stood alone (which was more than the Phoenicians could always do) signified _Tallegal_, translated by the learned Dr. Brownrigg, 'tanglefoot.'

Ambrose Bierce

Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place, The person, manner, and the grace, Which fools neglect; so that we find, If all the requisites are join'd, From whence a perfect joke must spring, A joke's a very serious thing.

Charles Churchill

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; The loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

Pedro Calderon De La Barca

Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on the feeble and vain attempts of geometry proper to rise to its level or to emulate it in its flights.

James Joseph Sylvester

Texans... never pass up an oppurtunity to boast whence they hail.

Mike Blakely

Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you?

Edward Teach