- Never
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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
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born to score goals, I feel.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have the confidence that I have if I wasn't born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get kinda self-conscious. I don't want to know about my eyebrows. I'm born with them.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.
- Nov 07, 2020
There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth certificate.
- Comparable
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- Nov 07, 2020
In England, more than in any comparable country, those who are born poor are more likely to stay poor, and those who inherit privilege are more likely to pass on privilege. For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible.
- Granddaddy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.
- Orange
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.
- Optimism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.
- I Was Raised
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Japan, and then we went to Korea, and I was raised in Nebraska.
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020