Sentence examples for My origin is from inspiring English sources

My origin is Somerville, Mass.

"My origin, being an African, has nothing to do with my mandate," she said.

"My origins are very simple," he said.

My origins are cloudy, like a haze kicked up by an unnecessary machine.

For instance, my origins are Egyptian and German, I was born in the United States and now live in The Netherlands.

There's a revealing passage where the hero's friend, a painter, describes how "I was interviewed not long ago by some putty-faced, pipe-smoking chubbyguts from that magazine Monthly Upchuck of the Arts and all he could do was needle me about 'class' and wonder when my origins were going to show more clearly in my work".

"My origins are just a complicated childhood: born to a father in the military, a mother with an eighth-grade education who was a domestic, then add in all the American issues of racism and American schooling, and you have me," Ndegeocello says.

My state of origin is Osun State, Nigeria which is where my dad is from, but I was born and raised in Lagos.

Yet severance from my tribe of origin is both undesired and impossible.

My religious family of origin is not ideal -- no family is -- but my first Christian home, the Mar Thoma Church, and now the Episcopal Church, have done right by me.

And my national origin was hardly an occupational hindrance.