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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
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born out of a Vegas marriage: My parents got married three days after they met.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I was born an alcoholic, but I was definitely born anxious.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read '1984' at a precocious age, like 8, and when I did the math, I realized that Julia, Winston Smith's lover, was born the same year I was, 1957. I read that book over and over again with the 1960s as a backdrop: anti-war and anti-bomb protests and this general pervasive sense of doom.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love' Les Mis,' and I owe it a lot, because I wouldn't have been born without it.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The human species imagined money into existence, and it exists - for us, not mice or wasps - because we go on believing in it.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers and professors.
- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born into a Greek family, and it was instilled in me not only to be passionate about the culture but also to be freaky loyal.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020