- High School
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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
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mom came from what has been called the poorest place in America - Lake Providence, Louisiana. She was born on the south side of the Mississippi which was mainly African American and even poorer than the rest.
- Heat
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should have been born in the Caribbean. We like the heat.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a beautiful little boy who is 18 months old and another little boy to be born in October. We are very excited about that.
- Harriet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1913, you get this extraordinary spectrum of the African-American experience.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has worked hard at it, and they've been students of it. The more you're a student of leadership, the more you figure out what works for you and the more effective you're going to be.
- Nov 07, 2020
Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is the reason you were born.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020