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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
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
- Guitar Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My guitar playing was born from playing in my teenage heavy rock bands.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by this is we don't just respond to things as we see them or feel them or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born a Catholic and now I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm something but I'm not a believer any more.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up to express myself only when asked to express myself, and then to do so in a way that's pleasing to hear. But I've always had a need to make my presence known. I was just sort of born that way, I guess. It's my natural tendency.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
My personal history, along with the history of many black people in this country, is rife with trauma born out of anti-black policies aided and facilitated by presidents and their administrations.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
#BlackLivesMatter was born online but now lives in street actions, in conversations in our homes, and in the dignity swelling in our hearts. That is the power of the open Internet, and it is why we must do everything we can to protect black voices. Our lives depend on it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
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- Nov 07, 2020