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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
I was born into the business, literally. My mum was seven months pregnant with me before she realized it, so she kept wrestling like normal up to that point.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
- Parents
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I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in Pretoria. Nobody ever really talked about Santa because the whole concept just didn’t make sense to us. Think about what South Africa looks like: I mean, we don’t even have any chimneys for him to come down!
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and you can move. Just because you are born in rural Arkansas, whatever, that doesn't define who you are.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father marched in Selma. My father was there in Alabama. That's where I was born. My birth certificate says 'colored.' It does not say I'm African-American or black. So for me, those are real realities that are not subject to opinion.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's impossible to be a young black male from the South, born to an era I was born in, and not have a clear sense of what race really means in the country.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem.
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- Nov 07, 2020