- 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
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
A chef's palate is born out of his childhood, and one thing all chefs have in common is a mother who can cook.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been addicted to crime since I was born. I was making up crime stories when I was a 4- or 5-year-old kid.
- Logic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in '76, but I didn't get into rock until the early '90s when the grunge stuff started coming out.
- Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
- Wife
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, 'Wow, you're still friends with your ex, man? Really? That's weird.' I don't play that.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Asian parents, or a lot of parents in general, they have no idea what goes on in this industry. Mine were born in the Philippines, where it's different, because it is about who you know, and who knows what you have to do to get to the top? So they had a lot of that skepticism.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020