All Quotes

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

I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.
‐‐ Candice Swanepoel

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
‐‐ Gary Burton

I grew up in a farming family. I hated cleaning out the chickens but loved hatching them and feeding the new born sheep. The smell of hot milk still has a special resonance for me. Harvest was back-breaking work, though... Where do you think Jesus got his biceps from?
‐‐ Joseph Mawle

I grew up in a few houses because my dad was a builder, so we used to build and sell quite a lot.
‐‐ Louise Nurding

I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.
‐‐ Nadia Giosia

I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.
‐‐ Chuck Pagano

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.
‐‐ Anselm Kiefer

I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard.
‐‐ Hunter Hayes

I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
‐‐ Tamara Tunie

I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians.
‐‐ Tamara Tunie

I grew up in a funny way.
‐‐ Gordon Ramsay

I grew up in a generation when there was no soccer on TV.
‐‐ Tim Howard

I grew up in a good family with good parents, and I was able to dream big and have the support to live it out.
‐‐ Liam Hemsworth

I grew up in a great family.
‐‐ Brian McBride

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.
‐‐ Mickey Rourke

I grew up in a happy household.
‐‐ Kristen Stewart

I grew up in a haunted house, reading Dr. Seuss.
‐‐ Drew Daywalt

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
‐‐ Madonna Ciccone

I grew up in a highly Hispanic neighborhood. It was very rare to find any race other than Mexicans. I feel very comfortable around Spanish speakers and people from Mexico and people who don't always feel comfortable living in the U.S. because they are in fear of being deported.
‐‐ Emily Rios

I grew up in a highly political home. My mother was the co-chair of the 300 Group, an organisation whose aim was to get more women MPs into parliament, and she herself stood in the 1987 election, the year before she died.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
‐‐ Indra Nooyi

I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
‐‐ Patricia Arquette

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.
‐‐ David Alan Grier

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.
‐‐ Ben Affleck

I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always horses, dogs, and cats, as well as a revolving infirmary of injured wildlife being nursed by my sister the aspiring vet.
‐‐ Julia Glass

I grew up in a home where diamonds were the subject.
‐‐ Beny Steinmetz

I grew up in a home where I was literally told from a young age, 'No daughter of mine will ever wash a man's socks,' and I am pleased to say I never have. It was made clear that whatever I wanted to do I should aspire to, regardless of my gender.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
‐‐ Mallory Ortberg