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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
My mom is very practical, and she originally wanted me to have something to fall back on. She was a little fearful of my becoming an actor because she didn't see it as a way to make a living. My dad, who was born and raised in Cuba, was really cool with it.
- Father
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My father describes himself as a Pole of Lithuanian descent. At Southampton University, he read aeronautical engineering and then the family moved to Hong Kong - this was before I was born - where he designed aeroplanes. Back in the U.K., he worked as a civil engineer, although every spare minute was spent researching his family's history.
- My Life
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I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there.
- New
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I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them.
- I Was Born
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I was born at home in rural Japan.
- House
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I was called McG since the day I was born because we were broke and there were three Joes in the house.
- Man
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Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always tell people I'm not one of these guys that was, like, born with, like, a halfway decent body.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a child is born, it is immersed in an atmosphere charged with the stellar vibrations peculiar to that moment, which are stamped upon each atom of the sensitive organism by the air inhaled with the first breath.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are born under a lucky star, it shows that we have earned the good fortune thereby Indicated, by forethought, kindness, and our other virtues expressed in previous lives, for we cannot have friends unless we are friendly ourselves.
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- Nov 07, 2020