All Quotes

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both.
‐‐ Morgan Fairchild

Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.
‐‐ Chris Van Allsburg

Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.
‐‐ Anthony Braxton

Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel.
‐‐ Stewart O'Nan

Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.
‐‐ Lev Grossman

Growing up in the '70s, it was only a few years before that when men started to grow their hair long. And in the '70s, people were pushing the envelope a little farther, with men having even more style and piercing both their ears and wearing makeup.
‐‐ Nikki Sixx

Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.
‐‐ Josh Hutcherson

Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the guys would all have the same clothes and shoes, like these uniforms. I was in awe.
‐‐ Raphael Saadiq

Growing up in the Bible Belt of Texas, I thought for sure there was no way - if I'm 100 percent true to myself and come out as a gay, African-American person in 2015 - that people are going to be able to accept that and understand it.
‐‐ Todrick Hall

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.
‐‐ Alan Moore

Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks.
‐‐ Jodie Sweetin

Growing up in the country, you're left to the wilds of your imagination.
‐‐ Cindy Williams

Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.
‐‐ Joshua Foer

Growing up in the eighties, you could go from one style in a movie to another style, and that was okay. In the nineties, you had to obey your niche. You had to follow the code and never step outside of exactly what you're doing.
‐‐ Alexandre Aja

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.
‐‐ Renee Olstead

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.
‐‐ Joyce Maynard

Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan

Growing up in the mid-to-late '90s in London, you start seeing the explosion of drum'n'bass and then the birth of U.K. garage and grime. I decided to focus a lot of my energies as an aspiring MC. It was a very natural way to express yourself as a kid from a certain kind of neighborhood.
‐‐ Riz Ahmed

Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.
‐‐ Nathaniel Rateliff

Growing up in the Midwest, I was very close to my maternal grandmother, who, as a young widow running a small business in 1920s Kansas City, had known firsthand the old Pendergast regime and its classic combine of politics and organized crime.
‐‐ Roger Morris

Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to.
‐‐ Luke Perry

Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child.
‐‐ Jessica Hagedorn

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.
‐‐ Mandy Moore

Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
‐‐ Mandy Moore

Growing up in the rural south, my family didn't look like our neighbors, and we didn't have much. There were times that were tough, but we had each other, and we had the opportunity to do anything, to be anything, as long as we were willing to work for it.
‐‐ Nikki Haley

Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.
‐‐ Gabe Newell

Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I grew up around a lot of Jews. I grew up culturally Jewish, ethnically Jewish, but without real belief and without a strong faith.
‐‐ David Gregory

Growing up in the south, N.Y.C. always seemed like a destination to visit but not to live in.
‐‐ Martha Hunt

Growing up in the States, there's this part of me that's like, man, I'm Indian. Like, this is where I belong. And as soon as I got to India, and I had to go to the bathroom in some places, I was, like, 'Man - I am American.'
‐‐ Hasan Minhaj

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.
‐‐ The Notorious B.I.G.

Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
‐‐ Halsey

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.
‐‐ Dinaw Mengestu

Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.
‐‐ Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.
‐‐ Adhir Kalyan

Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up, you know, in Middle America or the middle of Canada or something. It's a very movie town.
‐‐ Evan Goldberg

Growing up in Vermont, no matter what I did, I didn't get much recognition.
‐‐ Keegan Bradley

Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security.
‐‐ Thomas Mars

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
‐‐ John Cale

Growing up in Waterloo, the Governor General's Award wasn't something I even thought to wish for.
‐‐ Alexi Zentner

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.
‐‐ Reba McEntire

Growing up, it was about finding a way to entertain myself outdoors. We spent all the summers on the beach, camping with my family a bunch, and traveling as much as we could. My parents wouldn't let me watch too much TV growing up or play video games, or anything like that.
‐‐ Stephen Colletti

Growing up, it was just me and my mom, so we would play games where we'd listen to the radio and sing harmonies to each other.
‐‐ Ruthie Ann Miles

Growing up, it was kind of a struggle being small, since everyone would make fun of you - except for when it came to hide and seek: that's the only advantage I ever had!
‐‐ Simone Biles

Growing up, it was mainly just players I followed more than teams, with the exception of the Mariners. I never really had time to follow a team throughout a season.
‐‐ Jon Lester

Growing up it was the exception because I was maybe the only one in my school or my circle of friends that had that experience. But now that I know more people in the industry, I am realizing this happens to almost everybody.
‐‐ Anna Chlumsky

Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.
‐‐ Ezra Koenig

Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
‐‐ Candis Cayne

Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.
‐‐ Kerri Walsh Jennings