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.
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.
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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.
I was born in New Jersey, but it doesn't sound like I'm from a certain region.
I was born on June 3rd, 1929, in Graenichen in the Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, where I went to the public schools until the age of 16.
I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew...
The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.
Born Free is an idea that came from a place of deep respect for the delicate cycle of life. How incredible to be able to work with gifted designers who, as mothers, recognize what the devastating loss of a child...
I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.
I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.
