- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Birth Certificate Quotes
On birth certificates, identity, and proof of origin.
These quotes treat the birth certificate as a basic identity document, including one account of growing up for years without ever having one on file.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I literally don't exist. I didn't even get a birth certificate until the mid-80s. I always feel like I could be, like, 10 years younger, or maybe I'm 70!
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
To get me in to the Army underage, my mother signed me in saying that my birth certificate was lost in a fire in Nashville, so I got in underage. I was 16. She did because I begged her to do it.
- American Citizen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father marched in Selma. My father was there in Alabama. That's where I was born. My birth certificate says 'colored.' It does not say I'm African-American or black. So for me, those are real realities that are not subject to opinion.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the issues surrounding President Obama's birth certificate began during his campaign in 2008, I have rejected the notion that he is anything other than American.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The facts are simply that my brother was born in the United States at the Kapiolani Hospital for Women and Children in 1961. His birth certificate has been authenticated by a number of sources.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go -within 10 minutes - to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, 'See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.'
- Certificate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should have been called Kelvin. That would have been a top name: Kelvin-Prince. That was a mistake on the birth certificate - no one knows that.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first year playing Pop Warner football, my mom had to change my birth certificate because I was too young. I was 5, I think, and you were supposed to be 6.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020