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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's so many Chinese or Asian Americans that were either born in another country like I was and raised in America or born in America and raised in America. They're normal Americans, and they just happen to have a different heritage.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not born with effective vision. The human infant has to learn how to see. The eyes gather information, they transmit it to the brain, but the brain doesn't know how to process it yet. We learn how to see in a way that's very similar to the way we learn how to speak. It takes a couple of years.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me when I was a very young child. The first school I attended was a small building that went from first to sixth grade. There was one teacher for all of the students. There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Nagpur and brought up in Ahmedabad, where my father had a small factory.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.
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- Nov 07, 2020
By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish in your blood lines.
- Nov 07, 2020