- Who
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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
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life.
- Grandfathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant, so to speak, from the South. My grandfather was born in South Carolina - well, both grandfathers were born in the South.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm known for value for money. I was brought up to be frugal, and it's definitely a factor in my success. I was born in the Fifties, which was a frugal era, and my family had to be very careful with money out of necessity.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
OK, I've made a preposterous amount of money. But I was born with the attributes needed to do it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great rivers and prairies and wild forests still existed. And they were sublime.
- Observation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to the restored gospel, we know our spirits lived before we were born into this mortal existence.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.
- Maybe
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- Nov 07, 2020