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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
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
True, I was born and raised in Chennai, fluent in Tamil, but essentially, I am a Telugu guy and a Telugu actor.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Arth' was born at a stage of my life when I had gone through an emotional wasteland.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
One billion grains of sand come into existence in the world each second. That's a cyclical process. As rocks and mountains die, grains of sand are born. Some of those grains may then cement naturally into sandstone. And as the sandstone weathers, new grains break free. Some of those grains may then accumulate on a massive scale, into a sand dune.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My pops had me at the studio since I was born. That's why I got into music. He would let me go up on the controls and mess with stuff.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
- Front Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by - for some in our town, right out the front door - stretching on forever, under the great curving sky.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.
- Forefathers
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- Nov 07, 2020