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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
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.
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If I'd been born into a hearing family and went to a public school, I would have probably felt much more isolated, and being deaf would have become my identity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom did a great job because ever since I was born, she would put me into any type of sporting activity with hearing teams.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Owerri and grew up in the east of Nigeria, in Imo state. You could say I was a 'street boy': we grew up on the street, played on the street, did everything out on the street. It was a difficult life altogether, but that's how we grew up.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.
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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020