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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
There are some people who were born with good timing, and I think my comic timing is pretty solid.
- Life
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I thought I was grounded. I thought from my kinda blue-collar outlook on life that I would call myself a grounded person. I was not. I was like a balloon flying around in the air. And as soon as our first child was born, boom - my feet came right down to the ground.
- Paradise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn't own being Irish.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been born a Republican. My dad was an active Republican, but he was not active in politics and I really never was either. It's true that I did belong to that party, but it really had very little impact on my public work or my private views.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
- Nov 07, 2020
I knew early on that I was going to be a writer. I think it's something rather like a curse that you're born with.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have known Harold Ford Jr. since before he was born, in that his father was my driver in the 1966 governor's race, and has remained a friend of mine all these years.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in New Jersey but grew up mostly in Florida. My dad died when I was 8.
- Discriminatory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.
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- Nov 07, 2020