All Quotes

I grew up in an apartment that would have made a trailer look really decadent and nice. Pretty much the only dependable thing I had was books.
‐‐ Seanan McGuire

I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics, and I probably talked about things in a silly, ignorant way.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I've blocked it out, but I don't think so.
‐‐ Ruth Negga

I grew up in an artists' community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.
‐‐ Vin Diesel

I grew up in an average middle-class family. I don't think I even knew any friends who were fostered or adopted.
‐‐ Sherri Saum

I grew up in an eclectic house where people were listening to all types of different music. I also think being educated, eloquent and knowing how to talk for yourself in the industry makes you go a long way.
‐‐ Tinie Tempah

I grew up in an environment in Birmingham that was really multicultural, with black kids, Irish kids, Indian kids.
‐‐ David Harewood

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
‐‐ Allan Sloan

I grew up in an environment with virtually no Hispanics where you see only people in your culture in custodial jobs. I had a messed up image of what we bring to this nation. My father was known as a pioneering figure in Cuban music, but I still associated him with everything that was negative in my neighborhood. I could not have been more mistaken.
‐‐ Arturo O'Farrill

I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.
‐‐ Charles Schwab

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.
‐‐ James Levine

I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs.
‐‐ Tony Bennett

I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.
‐‐ Patti Scialfa

I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.
‐‐ Lin-Manuel Miranda

I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.
‐‐ Jimmy Fallon

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
‐‐ Bill Walton

I grew up in an underprivileged home.
‐‐ Chris Kirkpatrick

I grew up in an upper-middle-class town with a population around 12,000. My high school held around a thousand kids. All smart. We had a strict dress code. If you wore blue jeans to school, they sent you home.
‐‐ Jeffrey Gitomer

I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.
‐‐ Mayer Hawthorne

I grew up in Arizona and have a lot of buddies that are cowpokes.
‐‐ Michael Biehn

I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
‐‐ Kacy Hill

I grew up in Arizona. I love it. I'm a part of the desert. I feel like, really, I'm from the Sonoran Desert, which is - extends to both sides of the border. I'm really from that part of Mexico, also. And I hate that there's a fence, you know, running through it.
‐‐ Linda Ronstadt

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.
‐‐ Phil McGraw

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.
‐‐ David Hockney

I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.
‐‐ Josh Charles

I grew up in baseball stadiums. It was my two brothers and baseball around me all the time. I knew nothing about film or acting or theater when I was young!
‐‐ Stephanie Sigman

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.
‐‐ Joe Frazier

I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!
‐‐ Marissa Jaret Winokur

I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau.
‐‐ Joel Sternfeld

I grew up in Bellport, Long Island where I attended Gateway Acting School and met Robin Allan. She was the school's director who took me under her wing and was the one who told me that I could do this for real.
‐‐ Brendan Dooling

I grew up in Berkeley and my parents were hippies, obviously, since my name's 'Jorma.' I didn't watch much television growing up because they weren't into it at all.
‐‐ Jorma Taccone

I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.
‐‐ David Harewood

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.
‐‐ Lee Child

I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida - the worst place on earth.
‐‐ Eric Andre

I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.
‐‐ Matt LeBlanc

I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.
‐‐ Adam Shankman

I grew up in Brooklyn.
‐‐ Johnny Kelly

I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude.
‐‐ Louie Schwartzberg

I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and I'm a great believer that you can't have too conservative a President nor too liberal a Supreme Court. So I'm a walking contradiction. I believe that you should try to really protect people's rights in every way, and also, people should be allowed to do what they do.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina

I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.
‐‐ Larry Charles

I grew up in Brownsville; most of the kids I grew up with went to jail, not Yale. If they had heard of Yale, they thought it was a lock to pick.
‐‐ Mitch Leigh

I grew up in Buffalo, New York, and was a big Bills fan.
‐‐ Lex Luger

I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea, marine life, and everything related to it. But it was also a very dark place at night, so I could see the stars. And I just got very interested in it.
‐‐ Dimitar Sasselov

I grew up in Burbank - but not the Burbank of valet parking and TV studios. In the late 1950s, there was a small apartment complex on Elmwood Avenue that rented mostly to families on welfare. I lived there from age 3 to 11 and again from 14 to 18 with my mother, Shirley, and my younger sister, Toni.
‐‐ Rene Russo

I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
‐‐ Ted Olson

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
‐‐ Andrew Wiles

I grew up in Canada and was a huge Spider-Man fan, and never thought of Spider-Man as an American hero.
‐‐ Jake Epstein