- Man
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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
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was not to the manor born.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born with a love of animals, the same way I was born with brown hair. When I was a little girl in Rome, I always had pets, which I adored.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am High Wycombe born and bred.
- Small
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in a small village, and I didn't even think I was especially pretty.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer. Many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side are musical. My grandparents sang and played blues piano. It's literally in my blood.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in L.A.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020