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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom once told me that she wants to be born as my girlfriend in the next birth because she sees me how I am, I am extremely expressive, and she loves me for that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my stepfather in Edinburgh. He introduced me to books.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.
- Canada
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and brought up in Canada but I always wanted to come to India and act.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not all of us are born with the same role models and grasp things the same way.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a first-generation American of Chinese decent. My parents were both born and raised in China and moved to the U.S. in their 20s.
- Each Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020