All Quotes

Growing up in Alaska, they don't really teach you to swim there. I learned to swim just a few summers ago with Olympic gold medalist Amanda Beard. She did great, and right after that I went to get scuba certified. I had fun with it. I didn't really get scared, but some people thought that was a risk.
‐‐ Holly Madison

Growing up in an Italian family, we used our body to convey a message.
‐‐ Sebastian Maniscalco

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.
‐‐ Elizabeth Edwards

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.
‐‐ Bharati Mukherjee

Growing up in any big city, you get exposed to so many beautiful cultures. I've grown up with a lot of open eyes around me that's influenced my eyes to open.
‐‐ King Krule

Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even though I grew up, of course, in the time of segregated schools: Brown vs. Board of Education came along after I was already in first grade.
‐‐ Jessye Norman

Growing up in Beirut, I used to go to the souks with my mother to buy fabrics... I understood fashion at an early age, and my first designs were when I was five.
‐‐ Reem Acra

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.
‐‐ Bikram Choudhury

Growing up in Boston and dancing in the streets, you see a lot of things.
‐‐ Danny Wood

Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they do. The Founding Fathers made a bet that if you didn't force everyone to profess religion in their own particular way, you could protect intellectual freedom, and religion would flourish.
‐‐ Simon Schama

Growing up in Britain, Michael Caine has always been such an icon. Chatting with him, I know I came across as the biggest doofus. Literally, I was, like, bowing to him.
‐‐ Rose Leslie

Growing up in California, I grew up a JT Snow fan.
‐‐ Freddie Freeman

Growing up in California, I obviously knew about our deep connections with the Japanese.
‐‐ John Roos

Growing up in Canada, I didn't watch football much.
‐‐ Sidney Crosby

Growing up in Canada, I used to love a walk in the early morning, when the streets are quiet and the sun was shining. Walking in the morning is still very refreshing... and if I can, I will walk to my first meeting or appointment.
‐‐ Imran Amed

Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.
‐‐ Bobby Orr

Growing up in Chadds Ford, Pa., I shuttled between studio space in my parents' house and my grandfather's studio just up the hill. It was a solitary childhood, but I loved it.
‐‐ Jamie Wyeth

Growing up in Chicago, I was a theater nerd. That might be very cool on the East Coast, but in Chicago, it's really the athletes that come in No. 1 on the cool scale. Maybe musicians after that. Community theater? That's way down the list, my friend.
‐‐ Johnny Galecki

Growing up in Chicago, there was a very particular type of home that would display the black Jesus figure. It wasn't a radical home. You wouldn't find these in a Black Panther house. There's still a strong allegiance to Christianity.
‐‐ Rashid Johnson

Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has.
‐‐ Christine Pelosi

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.
‐‐ Tracy Chapman

Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point.
‐‐ James Harden

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.
‐‐ Moby

Growing up in D.C. there are so many different types of educational and professional levels. They call D.C. 'Chocolate City' but just because we're all chocolate doesn't mean we're all the same. In D.C., everyone co-exists harmoniously but the lines are still drawn. And people don't really step over those lines.
‐‐ Laz Alonso

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.
‐‐ Gale Norton

Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
‐‐ Calvin Harris

Growing up in eastern Germany, I knew of Superman, but he didn't resonate emotionally with me.
‐‐ Antje Traue

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.
‐‐ Loretta Lynn

Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
‐‐ Hamdi Ulukaya

Growing up in Egypt, I never saw the country as divided as it is today. We now have two main political groupings: the Islamist parties and the civil, or liberal, political parties.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail

Growing up in England, I was constantly surrounded by the Arthurian legend.
‐‐ Jamie Campbell Bower

Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.
‐‐ Nick Bantock

Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!
‐‐ Rupert Friend

Growing up in Europe, tight clothing is pretty standard. When I got to college, clothes were loose, so I was going toward more loose stuff. As soon as I got back to New York, I started wearing suits 25% of the year. Then, I realized how important it is for the suit to really fit you and be tight.
‐‐ Carl Hagelin

Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.
‐‐ Val McDermid

Growing up in Florida and having naturally curly hair was a bit tough. I had to learn to do treatments and masks to keep the frizz under control.
‐‐ Brittany Snow

Growing up in Florida, it rained a lot, so we spent a lot of time indoors. I used to love Frogger. I got a lot of use out of that and Ms. Pac-man on my little Atari.
‐‐ Jennifer Sky

Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.
‐‐ Alan Jackson

Growing up in Georgia, it was sort of the last place to jump on the bandwagon of the integrated frontier. I have aunts and uncles and grandparents that experienced the 'whites only' and segregated schools.
‐‐ Elijah Kelley

Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.
‐‐ Luke Bryan

Growing up in Hitchin was comfortable and easy enough. My parents had some great records - and some not-so-great ones - and that's where I got introduced to Motown and the Stones and Springsteen.
‐‐ James Bay

Growing up in Holland, I always thought my name was boring, but in the U.S., all of a sudden I have a very cool name.
‐‐ Michiel Huisman

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.
‐‐ Liza Minnelli

Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.
‐‐ Leonard Slatkin

Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.
‐‐ Zooey Deschanel

Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.
‐‐ Jason Lee

Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
‐‐ Naveen Jain

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
‐‐ Jack Bruce

Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked forward to mealtimes when we'd sit around the table and talk about our days. Storytelling and long, rambling conversations were considered good things.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy