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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1960 into a more violent America than we had in 2014. We haven't been in such a good place for more than 50 years.
- Professors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
- Heroes
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Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't get me wrong: politicians have been lying for a long time, long before Donald Trump was born, but the degree of just nonstop rage, grievance, prevarication, I haven't seen, probably because we haven't had a direct line from a politician's id to the public before.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.
- Cathedrals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn't be finished until their grandson was born.
- Childhood
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I was born partially deaf and suffered from labyrinthitis, which affected my balance. I had numerous ear infections and spent my childhood in and out of hospital having operations.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New York accent.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't born to be a fighter. My hands are too small, and look at these short arms.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to have been born in the '60s.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am French. I was born here, I live here and France is my cultural identity.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020