- Me
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from Dagestan, I'm born in Dagestan, and Dagestan is a different level for people living a tough life, people living in the mountains.
- Baseball
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen's been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australia's sort of national life; there's a deep respect for her role.
- Lived
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Singapore, and I lived there until I was 12. I had a very fortunate upbringing.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother likes to say that I was conceived to shop - not just born to shop. My whole life as a child was following her and her sister and friends around on her shopping trips.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Earl K. Long Hospital. I was born Feb. 5th, 1986. I have a lot of family members. My grandmother had five girls, and all of them had children. It was always a house full. A lot of cousins. A lot of family members.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Sagittarius, born in the year of the rat, all of which is basically meaningless to me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've experienced, in general, in New York, people cut to the chase a little more, and they're a little bit more straightforward. In L.A. I've experienced more wishy-washiness. I will say, though, that the people that are actually from L.A. - like, born and raised in L.A. - are the real nice and genuine people.
- Appreciation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm born and raised in Georgia, so I have a lot of appreciation for hip-hop, but I want to be able to show the emotional side of me.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather on my paternal side, Richard Frazier, was born in the late 1850s and, therefore, was born into slavery but was a sharecropper in South Carolina for his entire life.
- Shoes
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- Nov 07, 2020