All Quotes

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

I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.
‐‐ Michael Sandel

I grew up in a joint family of 60 people with one kitchen. So I am a firm believer in the family concept.
‐‐ Uday Kotak

I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.
‐‐ Maya Beiser

I grew up in a life where the answer was always there, I guess. But now I'm out on my own and still looking for the answer. Nothing is solved for me.
‐‐ Katy Perry

I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.
‐‐ Gloria Gaither

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.
‐‐ Rooney Mara

I grew up in a little Methodist church that was very rural, very community support-oriented, made up of great people who talked about love and grace and the spiritual experience, but only in rhetorical terms.
‐‐ James Redfield

I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into.
‐‐ John Corey Whaley

I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.
‐‐ Philip Treacy

I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.
‐‐ Ruth Negga

I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

I grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy.
‐‐ Katheryn Winnick

I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.
‐‐ J. M. G. Le Clezio