- Pride
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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Democratic party is one that I've always observed. I have struggled greatly in life from the day I was born, and I am honored to be a part of something that focuses on working class citizens and molds them into a proud specimen.
- Lucky
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky not to have been born pretty.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am Batley and Spen born and bred, and I could not be prouder of that. I am proud that I was made in Yorkshire, and I am proud of the things we make in Yorkshire. Britain should be proud of that, too.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really grew up being political or Labour. It was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered... who you knew mattered.
- Jamaica
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was probably born an alcoholic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my son was born, I decided I wasn't really into working 12 hours a day. That slowed me down a little bit.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Canada has this really cool way - specifically Toronto - of encouraging you to wave both flags: if you've been born there, like, wave your flag and then wave your parent's flag, too, and be proud of it.
- Dying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in a ghetto on the North Side of Pittsburgh. I was born as Emmett Till was dying and the civil rights era was being born.
- Phoenix
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- Nov 07, 2020