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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
I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.
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I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.
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Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.
- Music
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When we put music on, he kind of kicks in the belly, and it's cool to see how he's not even born yet, but he's already responding to the music. When I talk to him, he kicks as well. It's a very deep connection that I have with my son already and he's not even born. So I'm loving it.
- Language
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My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish.
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I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.
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Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.
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I was born in Paris. I grew up here, and I still live here, and I will forever, I think.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Microsoft wasn't born as an enterprise company. We have always been growing with end users in mind.
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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
- Man
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We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
- Loved
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I was born in 1963. So the '70s were my teenage years. As a teenager, I was into rock and roll - Bowie, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, even more progressive music like Genesis, and I was into a lot of British rock and roll. But I loved also American rock and roll. CCR, Jimmie Hendrix, The Doors, Patty Smith, and Bob Dylan.
- Casablanca
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- Nov 07, 2020