All Quotes

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.
‐‐ Sherman Alexie

I grew up in a strong faith-based family. I think I have selected to return to those roots for strength, for my family, for myself and to protect our children and to forgive others and move on and face forward.
‐‐ Paula Broadwell

I grew up in a strong family; we had strong family bonds.
‐‐ John Howard

I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.
‐‐ Saffron Burrows

I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger

I grew up in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, in the early '90s, and hospitals and doctor's offices offered to x-ray candy. I was 7 or 8. The day after Halloween, my brother and I were sorting all of our candy, and my mom asked if she could have a piece of my gum. She put the gum in her mouth, bit down, and there was a shard of metal in it!
‐‐ Cory Michael Smith

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
‐‐ Rachael Harris

I grew up in a Texas where people would say, 'I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left me.' Now, the reverse is happening. People are leaving the Republican Party because the Republican Party is going too far to the right in Texas. And that's a source of great potential support for Democrats.
‐‐ Julian Castro

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.
‐‐ Bobby McFerrin

I grew up in a time when Eames and Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and other architects were putting their furniture and objects on the market. You could buy some of those objects on the open market. Eames was a huge influence on all of us in school.
‐‐ Michael Graves

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.
‐‐ Kay Bailey Hutchison

I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.
‐‐ Kris Kristofferson

I grew up in a time when the only musicals were animated musicals because nobody wanted to see people to break into song.
‐‐ Jason Moore

I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny - because it's powerful; it's a threat.
‐‐ Lily Tomlin

I grew up in a total Pink Floyd house.
‐‐ Bill Hader

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.
‐‐ David Mamet

I grew up in a town of 5,000, surrounded by cows and oil fields, but there was a lot of opportunity in my tiny little town.
‐‐ Michael Lomenda

I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.
‐‐ Jesse Plemons

I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.
‐‐ Robert Wilson

I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I played softball, volleyball, and soccer. Oh, and I also did ski racing.
‐‐ Aimee Mullins

I grew up in a town with no movie theater. TV was my only link to the outside world. Film wasn't such a big deal to me. It was TV. So much so, that when I meet TV stars now... Not my co-workers, but real TV stars, I get nervous. I freak out around them.
‐‐ DJ Qualls

I grew up in a town without fathers.
‐‐ Stephen Rodrick

I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That's part of the Jewish tradition.
‐‐ Eve Ensler

I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.
‐‐ Hilary Swank

I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch or on the floor, and I always wanted to have my own space.
‐‐ John Searles

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
‐‐ Vera Farmiga

I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
‐‐ Garth Risk Hallberg

I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.
‐‐ Johan Lindeberg

I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
‐‐ Alan Bradley

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
‐‐ Park Chan-wook

I grew up in a very Catholic household. We were pretty conservative.
‐‐ Cristela Alonzo

I grew up in a very celebratory town. We celebrate everything, from life to death and everything in between. So a lot of dramatics come into my aesthetic. And I'm an actor, so that adds more to the dramatic - I don't mean over-the-top. The main thing is never to be boring.
‐‐ Bryan Batt

I grew up in a very culturally diverse area of America, and I am very proud to come from there. I am also proud that my inner circle of friends has never been defined by race but by the content of their character. Any former teammate or anyone who has met me can attest to this, and I pride myself on not being a judgmental person.
‐‐ Steve Clevenger

I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

I grew up in a very difficult country, a very oppressive situation because of the Somoza dictatorship. My family was in opposition to Somoza; Somoza was a liberal, and my family were conservatives. These were the two traditional parties in Nicaragua.
‐‐ Gioconda Belli

I grew up in a very 'Friday Night Lights,' sports-focused town. I did not play the sports. I was never bullied physically, but I was called names. I was also an overweight kid. I knew what it's like to feel like the other, to feel written off for things that were not in my control - my appearance, my interests.
‐‐ Robin Lord Taylor

I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again - their faith infused every aspect of my childhood. I'll probably spend most of my life working through that.
‐‐ Craig Thompson

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
‐‐ Lewis Grizzard

I grew up in a very liberal place.
‐‐ Jamie Dornan

I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way.
‐‐ Lucinda Williams

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

I grew up in a very modest home. We grew a lot of our food in our backyard. We fished; my brothers hunted.
‐‐ Martha Stewart

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.
‐‐ Chely Wright

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
‐‐ Billy Sherwood

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.
‐‐ Beyonce Knowles

I grew up in a very normal home.
‐‐ Trinny Woodall

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.
‐‐ Bradley Cooper

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.
‐‐ Sonia Braga

I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.
‐‐ Cherie Lunghi

I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?'
‐‐ Erin Gruwell

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.
‐‐ Daryl Hall

I grew up in a very relaxed environment in one sense, without many rules. My mother had a problem knowing where to draw the line, which caused a chaotic and hectic home life. A lot of people took advantage of my mom.
‐‐ Nikki Reed

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.
‐‐ Marian Wright Edelman

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.
‐‐ Akhmad Kadyrov

I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades.
‐‐ John Grisham

I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing. I went to school, I hung out with my friends, I fought with my younger sisters. It was all very normal.
‐‐ Stella Young

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'
‐‐ Steve Kazee

I grew up in a very small town and didn't realise till later that I had an adventurous side. When I went to theatre school at 18, I came into my own and let loose.
‐‐ Rachel McAdams

I grew up in a very small town, but it happened to be in western Massachusetts, where there were a lot of gay people. I remember my aunt going to a gay wedding when I was 11, and I thought it was the coolest thing.
‐‐ Elizabeth Banks

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.
‐‐ Miles Teller

I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in that town, and a lot of people couldn't say Uzoamaka.
‐‐ Uzo Aduba

I grew up in a very small town where nearly everyone knew each other, and odds were that whatever you said about a person would make it back to them by nightfall - something incomers learned, to their frequent embarrassment.
‐‐ Susanna Kearsley

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.
‐‐ Mira Nair

I grew up in a very spiritual home in a Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, FL. I was raised in the church, and my mother was a very inspirational person in my life.
‐‐ Robert Battle

I grew up in a very strict Pentecostal household.
‐‐ Kelly Price

I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.
‐‐ Gail Kelly

I grew up in a very toxic home.
‐‐ Bethenny Frankel

I grew up in a very traditional family, but there was never anything I didn't think I could do.
‐‐ Huma Abedin

I grew up in a very westernised environment and went to a private American school. But my personality was shy and quiet, and I wanted to wear the hijab but didn't have the courage, as I knew my friends would talk me out of it.
‐‐ Leila Aboulela

I grew up in a very working-class family and also a very fundamentalist Christian family. So, we didn't have access to the arts in the house in any form other than the Sunday funnies.
‐‐ Craig Thompson