All Quotes

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

I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
‐‐ Olesya Rulin

I grew up in a wonderful blend of a lot of old culture.
‐‐ Kenny Ortega

I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.
‐‐ Steven Holl

I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a novel that was the novel I wanted to write, and got a couple of good reviews but no real traction. I had no idea how to get a job in TV.
‐‐ Nic Pizzolatto

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
‐‐ Andrea Arnold

I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
‐‐ Hanna Rosin

I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class.
‐‐ Joel Kinnaman

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
‐‐ Joan Jett

I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.
‐‐ Tony Judt

I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.
‐‐ Rodney Brooks

I grew up in Africa, in Nigeria. I never knew, I never had any reasonable encounter with football. I saw football on Sky News. I thought there were people dressed like extraterrestrials, you know, like they were going to Mars or something, headgears and shoulder pads. And I wondered why, as a child, why did they have to dress that way.
‐‐ Bennet Omalu

I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.
‐‐ Jann Klose

I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find.
‐‐ Andre Holland

I grew up in Alice, Texas, a small oil town with one theater that only showed Roy Rogers movies. So when I got the role, I had never even seen a Bond film and had only had a vague notion about the idea of a Bond girl.
‐‐ Lois Chiles

I grew up in Alsace - in Strasbourg, by the canal; the family business was coal handling. It was still in the days when three generations would live under the same roof. There were 15 people for lunch, 20 for dinner.
‐‐ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.
‐‐ Janice Dickinson

I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.
‐‐ Jack Davenport

I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.
‐‐ K. A. Applegate

I grew up in an age where women's tennis did not have similar prizes to men, and they played in complete obscurity, really, compared to the men's game.
‐‐ David Stern

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.
‐‐ Laura Z. Hobson

I grew up in an agricultural family, and I never distanced myself from where the food comes from. I think it's quite natural.
‐‐ Jim Harrison

I grew up in an all-black neighbourhood in Decatur, Georgia - a kinda lower-middle-class area.
‐‐ Keri Hilson

I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.
‐‐ Kate Christensen

I grew up in an all-white community.
‐‐ Gayle King