- Dugout
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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
- El Salvador
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have my three brothers, and then I have my adopted sister from El Salvador, who is actually the oldest. My brother and I were already born, and then my parents adopted my sister from El Salvador during the war and had two more kids.
- Celebrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born on Mather Air Force Base near Sacramento, but we moved around a lot.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most experts and great leaders agree that leaders are made, not born, and that they are made through their own drive for learning and self-improvement.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I found out on Christmas Day 1984, through biochemical evidence, was that telomeres could be lengthened by the enzyme we called telomerase, which keeps the telomeres from wearing down. After I found that out, I went home and put on Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA,' which was just out, and I danced and danced and danced.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
- Nov 07, 2020
Life is like school. You aren't going to be born knowing what to do in every situation. You learn little by little.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
- Nov 07, 2020
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020