- I Am
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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
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Alton, Ill., and moved to Paducah, Ky., when I was 3 years old. I lived in Kentucky until I moved to Florida in 2015.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm much more interested in lesser-known eccentrics and characters and performers. Like Matthew Buchinger, who was born in Germany in 1674, had no arms or legs and yet did magic, and had 14 kids, and made the most extraordinary calligraphy.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was painfully shy when I was a kid. I always thought when most people were born, part of the toolkit was teaching you how to relate to other people - and it was just left out of my toolkit.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in Liberia in West Africa. My mother is Sierra Leonean, and my father's Liberian. I grew up at a time when there was a lot of civil unrest in both countries, so when something would happen in Liberia, we'd go to Sierra Leone, and when something would happen in Sierra Leone, we'd go back to Liberia. We moved to save our lives.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 6, 1943, one year to the day before D-Day, the allied invasion at Normandy. The youngest of four children, I was brought up in a wonderfully stable, loving family of strong Midwestern values.
- Virtual
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Presidents in wartime, embattled presidents, unpopular presidents, they all look to Lincoln. He's their patron saint because no president was more embattled or more unpopular than Lincoln was during his presidency. We think he was born on Mount Rushmore. Not so.
- Not Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020