- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Born Quotes
Where you start shapes who you become.
This page gathers quotes about origins in the literal sense — being born into music, born in a specific state or country — alongside a more analytical note on how each generation's tastes differ from the one before it. For more on personal identity, see our Identity quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when I was about 7. My mother was about 25, my stepfather was about 26, I'm six or seven, I was looking at them and I knew they were just too young.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football's become more physical. I would have liked to have been born 10 or 20 years earlier to enjoy football with the same commitment and desire but without the toughness it has now.
- My Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
- Faraway
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- Nov 07, 2020
It might help to know that in Afghanistan citizenship papers and birth certificates and the official registration of births and deaths are the exotica of faraway places. One is born 'in the time of the pomegranate harvest' or some such thing or one's birthdate is recorded as the first day of the year if you are even aware of the year you were born.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just not the glamour type. Glamour girls are born, not made. And the real ones can be glamorous even if they don't wear magnificent clothes. I'll bet Lana Turner would look glamorous in anything.
- Bald
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all born bald, baby.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States represents hope, freedom and opportunities to those who are born here and to those who are not. Those values are part of the United States' fabric.
- Idaho
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in Pocatello, Idaho.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020