All Quotes

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.
‐‐ Logan Lerman

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.
‐‐ Kenneth Lonergan

I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.
‐‐ Cheech Marin

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.
‐‐ Jesse Plemons

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.
‐‐ Pinetop Perkins

I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to me, it's one. I'm just as American as I feel Latin.
‐‐ Prince Royce

I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.
‐‐ Katherine Helmond

I grew up hearing stories about how my maternal grandfather had put himself through engineering school in New York City. He saved money by walking down to a gas station once a week to take a shower. When I applied to college, both education and investment value were important to me.
‐‐ Jason Kilar

I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.
‐‐ Jan Karon

I grew up here, and it's always been a very diverse community. So for people to come out and say that there's some long-standing anger or there's a history of racial tension is absolutely ridiculous. There's not a black-white divide in Ferguson.
‐‐ James Knowles III

I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
‐‐ S. E. Hinton

I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
‐‐ Rachel Boston

I grew up homeless, you know, lived in and out of U-Haul trucks and, you know, apartment houses, friends.
‐‐ Donald Driver

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.
‐‐ Bruce Beutler

I grew up horseback riding. That was my passion. I didn't start shopping until about 16 or 17, when I could drive myself to stores and explore on my own.
‐‐ Mary-Kate Olsen

I grew up hunting and fishing. I've always been into archery. I've always been into cars... In my family, that was just stuff we did. That's just the way it was.
‐‐ Paul Walker

I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not a gun advocate, but that's the way I grew up.
‐‐ Anson Mount

I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, Amy Irving, women who were stylish and real actresses who did real work and could not be replaced with anyone else. You cannot cast anyone else in Madeline Kahn's roles.
‐‐ Jenny Slate

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.
‐‐ Heidi Klum

I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other... get things done as a family.
‐‐ John Boehner

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

I grew up in a big ol' Latin family, so that's all the music we used to play - salsa music. We'd always dance and have fun. You know how families get down, man! We just had fun with it.
‐‐ Ryan Guzman

I grew up in a big sky country. Then I lived in Manhattan, where you can only see the sky between buildings, and then I went into a building where you couldn't see the sky at all. I didn't like that so much.
‐‐ Linda Ronstadt

I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at movies, and when I was a kid, I would try to hide it. It wasn't something a kid in Oaklyn, N.J., did. So I have these weird hang-ups about emotions.
‐‐ Matthew Quick

I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really.
‐‐ Guy Gavriel Kay

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.
‐‐ Carol Ann Duffy

I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals, or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life.
‐‐ M. J. Hyland

I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.
‐‐ Thomas Kinkade

I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.
‐‐ Elizabeth Rodriguez

I grew up in a bus, traveled with various circuses and freak shows. I was a trapeze artist, and that was my dream. We just traveled the whole world, me and my mom and my little brothers and sisters. It was an adventure.
‐‐ Neon Hitch

I grew up in a business-inspired environment, and over the years have started and run several businesses and philanthropic organizations. Understanding how large corporations work, by having hands-on and board experience, I apply that knowledge to the benefit of all that I do.
‐‐ Shari Arison

I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.
‐‐ Allyson Felix

I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.
‐‐ Mike Posner

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
‐‐ Danny Boyle

I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.
‐‐ Tom Vilsack

I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
‐‐ Rae Carson

I grew up in a commissioned house in the next suburb over, Mount Abbot. It was a two-bedroom house with me, my brother, and my two sisters. Mum and Dad slept in the lounge, and we didn't have wallpaper.
‐‐ Sonny Bill Williams

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.
‐‐ Kristin Hersh

I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever wanted was a video camera. For me it was a great outlet to be creative.
‐‐ Christopher Egan

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.
‐‐ Jon Secada

I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.
‐‐ Stephenie Meyer

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.
‐‐ John le Carre

I grew up in a confused house: too much unwanted attention or none at all.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.
‐‐ Chris Colfer

I grew up in a council house in a poor Scottish town. I came of age during the recession of the mid-1980s when unemployment in my area reached 40 per cent.
‐‐ John Niven

I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

I grew up in a country where advertising doesn't exist.
‐‐ Jan Koum

I grew up in a country where I remember my parents not being able to have a conversation on the phone. The walls had ears, and you couldn't speak freely.
‐‐ Jan Koum

I grew up in a country where the environment was very social justice-oriented.
‐‐ Moshe Safdie