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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
- Nov 07, 2020
I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sister learned she was a carrier for a recessive disease, Bloom syndrome, late in one of her pregnancies. I remember the panicked call and the weeks of worry as she and her husband awaited his test results; if he was also a carrier, this meant their daughter had a one in four chance of being born with the disorder.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my baby was born, I felt like somebody had spiked my drink, and I suddenly was so full of love that it was a little bit as if I was drugged. I didn't think that anyone could feel that way.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for president the year I was born. So that was the end of it. He had been congressman first, then governor, before all that. So when we came along, he was running the Dayton newspaper.
- Portugal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Oxford. I grew up in Cascais, Portugal.
- Eclipsed
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Usenet was eclipsed by websites in the late 1990s, people from that world - many of them programmers - wanted to bring the freewheeling, amazing discussions of Usenet to the web. And thus, RSS was born.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
io9 was the last standalone site that Gawker Media ever launched. It was born at a time when many of the company's other famous sites, from Consumerist and Wonkette to Fleshbot and Idolator, were being sold off or shuttered.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020