- Business
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker?
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought I'd be comfortable living outside South Africa, but we love London. Our two kids were born here.
- Horizon
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in Kansas. The worst things are the locusts, mosquitos, the flatness, the humidity. The greatest things are the simplicity of life, watching the thunderheads building on the horizon, and running through cornfields.
- Los
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in Los Angeles.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've visited Mangalore as a kid because we had relatives there. But I was born and brought up in Mumbai. So I don't know much about the place or the people.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man always dies before he is fully born.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where did God come from? It's certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020