All Quotes

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

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across.
‐‐ Justin Townes Earle

I grew up in a really horrible school system, but my parents did not let that define how we function. They gave me more work at home from them than I ever got from school. To learn about the history of myself and my people, and that armors me.
‐‐ Jesse Williams

I grew up in a really small town: LaGrange, Georgia. There weren't a lot of creative outlets there, so I did local castings.
‐‐ Elijah Kelley

I grew up in a really small town, so it wasn't really a fashion-forward place, and it was very casual.
‐‐ Behati Prinsloo

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.
‐‐ Justin Bieber

I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.
‐‐ Clarence Thomas

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it. I was going to be a priest; I'm proud of it. And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
‐‐ Clarence Thomas

I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.
‐‐ Mike White

I grew up in a retirement community in Florida.
‐‐ Megan Boone

I grew up in a rough environment. You want to be strong and have your presence felt out there. That attitude reflects how people see you.
‐‐ Mekhi Phifer

I grew up in a rural area. I grew up in deep southern middle Tennessee, probably about thirty miles from the Alabama border. There's nothing there, really. And the TV was my link to the outside world. It's what kept me from going into factory employment. It's what made me want to go to college. It was really inspiring.
‐‐ DJ Qualls

I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students.
‐‐ Henry Thomas

I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.
‐‐ Alison Krauss

I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
‐‐ Eben Alexander

I grew up in a secular environment, you know, in the '60s and '70s. My mother's family was Catholic, but you know, just very kind of conventionally Catholic. You know, nothing - there was nothing, you know, extreme about their version of religion. And my father was a free spirit, you know? He had no time for religion at all.
‐‐ Pawel Pawlikowski

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father's from Brooklyn, and so you're essentially an outer boroughs kid, you're growing up.
‐‐ James Gray

I grew up in a semi-slum area in Gavipuram, Guttahalli.
‐‐ Shakuntala Devi