All Quotes

I grew up thinking of myself as an American but also, because of my parents and the Iranian culture that was in our home, as an Iranian. So if there's any such thing as dual loyalty, then I have it - at least culturally.
‐‐ Hooman Majd

I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit.
‐‐ John Landis

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

I grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grown up around that. But my father encouraged me to not become an Air Force person, given the varied interests I had, be it books, movies, sports or fighter flying.
‐‐ Kapil Sharma

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.
‐‐ Caroline Rhea

I grew up thinking that renting is perfectly normal. And then, strangely enough, I never did buy a house. I live in New York City, and I'm still renting. My own personal narrative shows that it is possible to live a respectable life without ever having owned a home.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
‐‐ Nana Mouskouri

I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.
‐‐ Victoria Principal

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.
‐‐ John Hope

I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
‐‐ Ira Sachs

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
‐‐ Charles de Gaulle

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.
‐‐ Jules Feiffer

I grew up to the smell of doughnuts, scones, pies, and bread.
‐‐ Paul Hollywood

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.
‐‐ Tony Visconti

I grew up training and showing Arabs all over the US. Three of my four were bred on my farm in Texas. Thanks everyone! Hope you'll watch tomorrow. It's going to be another great look back.
‐‐ Catherine Crier

I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.
‐‐ Cam Newton

I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different planet for me. In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.
‐‐ Jimmy Cliff

I grew up two train stops from where A Tribe Called Quest grew up, and one stop from Nas.
‐‐ Awkwafina

I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.
‐‐ Petra Nemcova

I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.
‐‐ Bill Parcells

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
‐‐ Thom Yorke

I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children - very, very strict - a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human.
‐‐ Lorraine Toussaint

I grew up under the spell of London. Illustrator Kerry Lee's evocative 1950 wall map of the city hung above our breakfast table at home in Canada. Over my corn flakes, I traced the capital's high roads and medieval alleys.
‐‐ Rory MacLean

I grew up under the sticks and stones rule. I didn't put my hands on you so why should you put your hands on me or my family.
‐‐ Tim Hardaway

I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.
‐‐ Lily Collins

I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.
‐‐ Beyonce Knowles

I grew up using hearing aids, and I had speech therapy and so forth, and that helped me to develop a passion for music and helped me to develop my drumming talents.
‐‐ Sean Berdy

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.
‐‐ Kurt Braunohler

I grew up very comfortable in this bizarre, circus-like existence, but, as comfortable as I was, I was also aware of the struggles that actors go through.
‐‐ Alexa Davalos

I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
‐‐ Taylor Spreitler

I grew up very fast as a young girl, but I grew slowly into my womanhood.
‐‐ Robin Wright

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.
‐‐ Debbie Ford

I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.
‐‐ Ronnie Dunn

I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name it I've probably done it. I just find so much gratification in being physical.
‐‐ Sharni Vinson

I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports.
‐‐ Bradley James

I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it's - I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it's like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.
‐‐ Jon Lovitz

I grew up very poor in a fractured family that was dysfunctional on both sides, but I sort of put up these reflectors to most of the negative things that have occurred in my life. I don't carry around much baggage.
‐‐ Keith Stanfield

I grew up very poor, so I learned how to stretch a dollar. It's nice to combine high-end with low-end or whatever-end you want.
‐‐ Azita Ghanizada

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.
‐‐ Brad Pitt

I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.
‐‐ Dane Cook

I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

I grew up walking out with no music. I wish I had the bottle to dance on but I can't dance.
‐‐ John Higgins

I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
‐‐ Natalie Babbitt

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.
‐‐ John Tesh

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.
‐‐ Paul Simonon

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.
‐‐ Christopher Durang

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
‐‐ Ben Stiller

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.
‐‐ Toni Collette

I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
‐‐ J. H. Wyman

I grew up watching a lot of stuff, like 'Teen Titans.'
‐‐ Jeremy Shada

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.
‐‐ Linda M. Godwin