All Quotes

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

I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
‐‐ Garth Nix

I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
‐‐ Garry Disher

I grew up in a house full of faith, and my mother died when I was a little girl, and I found comfort in my faith.
‐‐ Roma Downey

I grew up in a house full of music. Everything from reggae and afro-beat to Zook and pop.
‐‐ Estelle

I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.
‐‐ Patrick Dempsey

I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.
‐‐ James Patterson

I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
‐‐ Rachel Boston

I grew up in a house of forthright women.
‐‐ Chris O'Dowd

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.
‐‐ Lynda Barry

I grew up in a house that might have had the only front-yard cornfield in all of Los Angeles.
‐‐ Paul Fleischman

I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very young, because I had some uncles who were musicians and all my aunts were singers.
‐‐ Ronaldinho

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

I grew up in a house where language was appreciated and cared about. I'm sure that, although I wasn't aware of it at the time, it must have made an impression on me.
‐‐ Marian Seldes

I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'
‐‐ Sara Blakely

I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.
‐‐ Chris Pine

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
‐‐ Constance Baker Motley

I grew up in a house where service to the country was a way of life, not a means of reaching a personal goal.
‐‐ Isaac Herzog

I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When I was a teenager, you wouldn't go to a bar and find lots of televisions everywhere. People were talking. Talk was the mental fire you would gather around in the evening. It occupied a big part of your existence.
‐‐ Dylan Moran

I grew up in a house with a lot of kids, brothers and sisters. So I don't mind a lot of talking, yelling, playing. I can tune most of that out.
‐‐ James McBride

I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values there, and I brought them with me when I showed up in Hollywood.
‐‐ Ben Affleck

I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.
‐‐ Lee Pace

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.
‐‐ Rick Perry

I grew up in a house with very few books.
‐‐ Ken Livingstone

I grew up in a household in which they'd always play old skool classic R&B love songs - Al Green, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye... And my mom has even said that, when I was in her womb, she'd put the headphones to her stomach and play those songs to me!
‐‐ Jeremih

I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.
‐‐ Robert Battle

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.
‐‐ Penny Pritzker

I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.
‐‐ Dick Gephardt

I grew up in a household that was very close, very open, and always talking about what was going on with each other.
‐‐ Tyler Ritter

I grew up in a household that was very left wing.
‐‐ Jez Butterworth

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.
‐‐ Frank Langella

I grew up in a household where I learned five things from my old man. You know what they were? You're no good. You're a failure. You're not going to amount to anything. Don't trust nobody, and don't tell nobody your business. When I lost to Larry Holmes in 1982, I felt all five of those things smacked me right across the face.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
‐‐ Caroline Kennedy

I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.
‐‐ Chris Hayes

I grew up in a household without a lot of problems and they have been very supportive from day one.
‐‐ Mario Lopez

I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.
‐‐ Victoria Hanley