- Live
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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
- Communist
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- Nov 07, 2020
China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.
- Dies
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- Nov 07, 2020
When desire dies, fear is born.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since my childhood days in Kolkata, where I was born, I had seen my father interacting with Congressmen.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen.
- Good Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born with good health and a strong body and spent years abusing them.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have prophesied for years that I was born for a Great War; that if I did not witness the coming of the Second American Civil War, I would begin it myself.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Nashville, but my whole family is from East Texas, so I consider myself a dual citizen.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020