Sentence examples for whence we from inspiring English sources

Going back the same direction whence we came would be 360 degrees.

President Kennedy, during a 1962 speech in Newport, R.I., stated, "We are tied to the ocean from whence we came".

Another apparent reference is to the Button Moulder in Ibsen's Peer Gynt, the man who at death melts us down into the common clay whence we came.

And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch, we are going back from whence we came".

Eventually the resistance relents: I can shepherd the boys as far as the Windsor footbridge, from whence we can fish for people.

"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".

This generation of politicians and newspaper editors has no actual experience of whence we came, and apparently no great sense of history either.

As someone who considers himself green, Liberal and fond of science and policy making that are evidence-based, it is utterly maddening – but it is where we are now and from whence we have to move forward.

Are we not all temporary residents of this earth — and what matters most, from whence we came or where we're going and whom we are going to help along the way?

At the end of my two years of service, my 30 colleagues and I all left the army to rejoin the professional and family life from whence we came.

Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus famously includes the cheery refrain "Never to be born is far best" with the comforting rejoinder that the next best thing is to return "as quickly as possible" whence we came.