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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
- Nov 07, 2020
It's said that Norwegians are born with skis for our legs. That's why we always win the Olympics.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was born ready.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in San Francisco. I was raised in Oakland, so I'm, like, super Bay Area born, and, you know, it's just really multicultural up there, and there's a lot of subcultures just from, like, anything, like from rockabilly to, like, crazy punk scenes to, you know, a huge rap scene, and there's just all kinds of things you can do out there.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not deny my German identity. But I also feel Swiss. Of my eight great-grandparents, seven were born Swiss. I have been living in Switzerland for more than 50 years.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Millennials, a generation born digital, will have a much stronger impact on social behaviour than we currently assume. Global climate change and resource security will influence our lives in substantial ways.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many years ago, when I was born in the '50s - '50s and '60s didn't belong to girls in India. They belonged to boys. They belonged to boys who would join business and inherit business from parents, and girls would be dolled up to get married.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy - a boarding school in Michigan - for a year, and then I went to college for a year at The Boston Conservatory and landed the 'Spring Awakening' tour midway through my freshman year, which was pretty cool.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020