- Politics
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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
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born with the gift.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Airbnb was born out of necessarity. Our rent went up. It was born out of a problem.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
We built a basic website, and Air Bed and Breakfast was born. Three lucky guests got to stay on a $20 airbed on the hardwood floor. But they loved it. And so did we. We took them on adventures around the city.
- Nov 07, 2020
All pitchers are born pitchers.
- Factory Worker
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the fact we're still on the road. I was born to be a factory worker really, so for me the chance to get on stage at Wembley 30 years after we started is amazing.
- Coloured
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.
- Nov 07, 2020
Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.
- Parent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was my parent's first child, Joanna Catherine Going, named for my great-great grandmother Catherine, and my father's maternal aunt Johanna Burke, and bearing the initials of my father's father, John Christopher, who passed away just months before I was born.
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.
- Am
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- Nov 07, 2020