All Quotes

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

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.
‐‐ Ed Westwick

I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.
‐‐ Kate Brown

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.
‐‐ Max Cannon

I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.
‐‐ Olivia Munn

I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room.
‐‐ Laura Esquivel

I grew up in a modest neighborhood just outside of Los Angeles. It was an industrial community of blue-collar, working people... some of the hardest-working people I've ever met.
‐‐ Hilda Solis

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
‐‐ Uma Thurman

I grew up in a musical environment. My parents played music and had it playing on the radio. They brought me to a concert at the age of 5, the same age I started violin lessons.
‐‐ Joshua Bell

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.
‐‐ Joshua Bell

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

I grew up in a Navy family.
‐‐ Elizabeth Edwards

I grew up in a Navy family, and like most service families, we traveled a lot and moved a lot. I grew up on both coasts and in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in Rockville, Maryland, and have had a great time doing it.
‐‐ Alan G. Poindexter

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.
‐‐ Jada Pinkett Smith

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.
‐‐ Carmine Giovinazzo

I grew up in a one-parent family. I worked my way through college, I had very average grades and I was very average looking, but I've lived a remarkable life only because I believed I could.
‐‐ Georgette Mosbacher

I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.
‐‐ Angela Ahrendts

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.
‐‐ James Vincent McMorrow

I grew up in a place that felt very integrated.
‐‐ Craig Brewer

I grew up in a place where a lot of my friends had horses, so I grew up riding. But I'm not an expert.
‐‐ Anson Mount

I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn't help but read anything that was in front of me.
‐‐ Jamaica Kincaid

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
‐‐ Irvine Welsh

I grew up in a politically aware household: very civically-minded, good Minnesota liberals.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.
‐‐ Ving Rhames

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian community, and most of my friends had blonde hair and blue eyes. So I was always straightening my hair, wearing colored contacts, and I never tanned, if I could help it.
‐‐ Shay Mitchell

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.
‐‐ Shay Mitchell

I grew up in a pretty gay world - my brother's gay and he's been married to a man for 20 years, which is like 60 in straight-people years.
‐‐ Kevin Smith

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.
‐‐ Anne Hathaway

I grew up in a pretty religious house. My family was Roman Catholic, and I couldn't wait to get away from that. But that doesn't mean I'm not a spiritual person.
‐‐ Jeff Lemire

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.
‐‐ Alicia Keys