All Quotes

Growing up, money is important. And now I have a career where I'm making enough money to live. But I really want to give it to my parents, my family, charities, and people around me.
‐‐ Tyler Joseph

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.
‐‐ Rudolph A. Marcus

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.
‐‐ Jeremy London

Growing up, my dad drank a lot of wine, so I got a taste for, and learned how to enjoy it. He spoke a lot about flavors and differences in tastes of wine. Also, our manager, Rick Sales, is a big wine drinker; he goes to a lot of wine-tasting classes, and he's taught me about the qualities of wine.
‐‐ Tom Araya

Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that's why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it.
‐‐ David Chang

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
‐‐ Zoe Saldana

Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need.
‐‐ Becky G

Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, 'Hey, come see my play,' he'd say, 'Sure.' He'd see one, 'Oh, good play' - you know, very typical dad reaction.
‐‐ Eric McCormack

Growing up, my favorite group was New Edition. I loved the opportunity to do the remix to Bobby Brown's song 'Get Away'. I told myself that I would have my own group like New Edition one day.
‐‐ Chris Stokes

Growing up, my favorite TV show was Star Trek.
‐‐ Casper Van Dien

Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down.
‐‐ John Lasseter

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.
‐‐ Kevyn Aucoin

Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.
‐‐ Dirk Nowitzki

Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
‐‐ Kat Edmonson

Growing up, my mom had a catering business. I used to help her pretty early on and loved doing it. My mom is an amazing cook, and she helped me cultivate a love for food. She taught me that food can be beautiful. We eat not just for survival, but we survive to eat. It's part of who I am.
‐‐ Kelis

Growing up, my mom made us this amazing thing called The Mack Theatrical Wardrobe. It was a massive trunk filled with everything that you'd want as a kid if you were into imagination and play.
‐‐ Allison Mack

Growing up, my mom was a painter, my best friend was a painter, my husband is a painter. For a long time I knew artists, and I didn't know any writers.
‐‐ Holly Black

Growing up, my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved, and I said to myself that I wasn't going to be like that. But now I know I'm going to be exactly like my mom. I'm going to be worse!
‐‐ Nicole Scherzinger

Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.
‐‐ Ken Baumann

Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would?
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
‐‐ Aaron Neville

Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too.
‐‐ Miranda Cosgrove

Growing up, my parents always played artists like Alanis Morissette, Aerosmith and Michael Jackson, so I just grew to love their music. And I just love so many diverse artists for different reasons; some for their instruments, some for their edge, some for their vocals.
‐‐ Manika

Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.
‐‐ Crystal Bowersox

Growing up, my parents were healthy eaters and starting to run and compete when I was 13, I knew the need to focus on what you need to eat. I remember going to grocery store myself and picking up fresh fruit and knowing early on the right foods to fuel my body.
‐‐ Norah O'Donnell

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.
‐‐ Chris Hemsworth

Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.
‐‐ Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Growing up, my sisters were both into dancing, so I went to a lot of dance recitals, mostly because there were always pretty girls in leotards.
‐‐ Jason Sudeikis

Growing up, my two favorite books were Woody Allen's 'Side Effects' and Phyllis Diller's 'Housekeeping Hints.' I carried that Phyllis Diller book with me everywhere when I was in fifth or sixth grade. Eventually, it just fell apart.
‐‐ Jill Davis

Growing up my whole life, my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it's important for girls to know that they can change the world, that they do have an impact.
‐‐ Ashley Greene

Growing up, 'Newsday' was the paper that was delivered to my doorstep every day.
‐‐ Kevin Connolly

Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
‐‐ Candace Bushnell

Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.
‐‐ Mike Johanns

Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs.
‐‐ Sam Graves

Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
‐‐ Abbie Cornish

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
‐‐ Rachel Boston

Growing up on a set is completely different than coming onto a brand new set for the first time.
‐‐ Alexa Vega

Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.
‐‐ Ansel Elgort

Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first time I tried on a L'Oreal Paris iconic lipstick - it was instant glamour and I've been hooked ever since.
‐‐ Lea Michele

Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.
‐‐ B. B. King

Growing up, one of my cousins was an out gay man.
‐‐ Eric Stonestreet

Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.
‐‐ Ali Larter

Growing up outside your own country makes you feel that you don't belong when you return, so you feel free to make friends with whomever you like.
‐‐ Claire Denis

Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.
‐‐ Dermot Mulroney

Growing up, people are like, 'Mary, we'll see you at the Grammys.' You're like, 'I'll be at the Grammys.' Then, you're actually at the Grammys! That actually is happening; it's not just something people are saying because they like your music. It's real!
‐‐ Mary Lambert

Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.
‐‐ Jay-Z