- Best
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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
- Educated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family's roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.
- Melody
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- Nov 07, 2020
The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was born, my dad and my mom gave me names, but in Africa, when your child is born, especially close family members can suggest names they want to add on. Maybe your grandmom and your grandpop have something to add to the name of the child.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I was born in Katmandu, lived there until I was eight, and then moved to Australia with my mother and father. So yeah, I'm very mixed up, been to many different schools.
- Speak
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people are born and train their whole life to be an NBA player. But some people, if it doesn't work out, then they have no other option.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
815 is the neighborhood I was born and raised in; 815 Harrison Square is the exact name. It's in Gainesville, Georgia.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.
- Big Star
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- Nov 07, 2020