- He
- |
- 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
- I Am
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in a house without a light or a toilet, so why would I forget who I am or where I come from?
- Dead
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1999, just a few months after 13 people were left dead after a shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado.
- Art
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I really admire Ana Mendieta. She was a Cuban American artist who died the year I was born and whose work examines violence, feminism, and belonging. Her art is always brave and visually arresting and vibrates with meaning.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would've been great. The Beatles changed everything for me, and I wanted to be a journalist for 'Rolling Stone.' I'm a big music fan in a Cameron Crowe way, kind of in a spectator way.
- Feeling
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.
- Learning
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
- Artist
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Any creation of art is conceived and born under influences, amidst the atmosphere of reverie and the most customary volition of the artist. It is there, in any case, that his work arises from.
- Inside
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.
- Hell
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.
- Deadly
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was born with fairly serious scoliosis, and I did not walk at all until I was about two-and-a-half years old.
- New
- |
- Nov 07, 2020