- 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
- Lawyers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a show called the 'Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery Channel. And they film it on Dutch Harbor where I grew up.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born here in the States. I moved to Portugal when I was five. And then my parents put me in an English school.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Boston, and when I was two and a half, my parents moved to Minneapolis. And then from there, when I was five, we moved back to Portugal. But before that, a lot of family members had come to visit us, and we had been back to Portugal many times because my whole family lived there.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I was supposed to be born in the '90s. Everything from that era needs to come back.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is this mythology that says that when people are born, their brains are essentially fixed very early on and they're not able to change their connections. I was aware that was a myth and that people could learn new skills.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we moved to the St. Louis area. I lived in St. Charles, on the Missouri River, till I was 15.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was basically raised to look for chances to get even with several families for stuff that happened 30 or 40 years before I was born.
- Where
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a part of the world - raised in a part of the world where you're born a Democrat, baptized a Democrat.
- Good Ones
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- Nov 07, 2020