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
I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.
‐‐ Peter Zumthor
I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.
‐‐ James Badge Dale
I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
‐‐ Lars von Trier
I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.
‐‐ Terry Tempest Williams
I grew up in a culture of motorbikes. So I like racing just fine. Quite a lot, actually. That was when I was a boy in Australia. And I never really made the jump to cars after that.
‐‐ Chris Hemsworth
I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.
‐‐ Teresa Heinz
I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.
‐‐ Melody Carlson
I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp
I grew up in a dysfunctional family.
‐‐ Melissa Gilbert
I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful.
‐‐ Karen Mills
I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother's side had been a matron on a hospital ship in World War II, and one on my father's side had served in the Women's Royal Naval Service.
‐‐ Nick Earls
I grew up in a family in which no male upstream from me had ever finished high school, much less gone to college. But I was taught that even though there was nothing I could do about what was behind me, I could change everything about what was in front of me. My working poor parents told me that I could do better.
‐‐ Mike Huckabee
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
‐‐ Joseph Stiglitz
I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be an actor or not?' I always felt like that's just ingrained in you, the need to perform. The choice was, 'Do you want to do this professionally or not?'
‐‐ James Badge Dale
I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about animals amuses me. And they have a great mystery. It's the same mystique some people might feel looking at the stars or the ocean.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini
I grew up in a family of firemen and cops.
‐‐ Bonnie Somerville
I grew up in a family of nine kids.
‐‐ Estelle
I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life - on human life.
‐‐ Mikhail Gorbachev
I grew up in a family of people who were obsessed with fashion.
‐‐ Michael Kors
I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There's not enough women like that on the screen.
‐‐ Melonie Diaz
I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.
‐‐ Tina Fey
I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.
‐‐ Naomi Judd
I grew up in a family of storytellers, but Google has destroyed us because you can fact-check everything. We'd always like the stories to be a little better than they were.
‐‐ George Clooney
I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.
‐‐ Ryan Gosling
I grew up in a family struggling for work.
‐‐ Rick Scott
I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings. Afterward, we withdrew from one another and tried our best to strike the event from our memories.
‐‐ Koren Zailckas
I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.
‐‐ Rand Paul
I grew up in a family that nearly lost everything, but I ended up in the United States Senate because I grew up in an America that invested in kids like me and built a real future for us.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren
I grew up in a family that played golf, and my brother was much better than me, so I kind of put that aside. I had to be good at something other than golf.
‐‐ Nicolas Ghesquiere
I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore
I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.
‐‐ John Wells
I grew up in a family where everybody had a good time and we were at the lake every weekend and going to the beach and living a good life. It's been the way we always lived, and my wife's the same way - enjoy every day and have fun.
‐‐ Luke Bryan
I grew up in a family where law was in the air we were breathing.
‐‐ David Zabel
I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.
‐‐ Jake Gyllenhaal
I grew up in a family where no one had written a newspaper or magazine article about anybody in my family for a hundred years, right? Then, all of a sudden, we're getting one millennium's worth of media attention in six months.
‐‐ Michael J. Saylor
I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.
‐‐ Marcy Kaptur
I grew up in a family where the love of stories is very strong. And there's also a love of performance. I think one reason stories were so important in my family was that we moved around a lot.
‐‐ Ann-Marie MacDonald
I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
‐‐ Nadia Giosia
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful. I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs.
‐‐ John Irving
I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
‐‐ Pam Grier
I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.
‐‐ Darren Aronofsky