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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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The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.
- Forever
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There are many businesses that are born and die. A university is supposed to live forever.
- I Was Born
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The faith I was born into formed me.
- Poor
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I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.
- Long
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The United States was born with an imperialist impulse. There has been a long confrontation between Monroe and Bolivar... It is necessary that the Monroe Doctrine be broken.
- Memories
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I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.
- I Was Born
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Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.
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I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
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Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.
- Oklahoma
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I was born in Oklahoma.
- America
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I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.
- Old
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I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.
- Bumper Sticker
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A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and pretty faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an American.' It really should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very much that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not old enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.
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