All Quotes

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

I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.
‐‐ Tatiana Maslany

I grew up in Cazenovia, N.Y. I'm the second of five children, with three sisters and a brother.
‐‐ Siobhan Fallon Hogan

I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World.
‐‐ Anne Hull

I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker.
‐‐ Matt McGorry

I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.
‐‐ Dwyane Wade

I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!
‐‐ David Hasselhoff

I grew up in Chicago and was a huge fan of 'The Second City', so when I moved to L.A., I was looking for anything that resembled that... then I started 'The Groundlings', so I went to a show and it was very much like 'Second City'. I was so impressed that that same night I went backstage and I went up to the funniest person there.
‐‐ Kathy Griffin

I grew up in Chicago, but when I was 12, I came to New York because I was doing an episode of 'Law & Order.'
‐‐ Keke Palmer

I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.
‐‐ Lamorne Morris

I grew up in Chicago, so hip-hop has always been a part of my life.
‐‐ Gina Rodriguez

I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan.
‐‐ Kyle Chandler

I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we'd watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters - they were the biggest things I've ever seen!
‐‐ Kyle Chandler

I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, 'Hey, when I grew up, my neighborhood was tough, and it was this and that'... the reality is that it was just a terribly sad place. And thank God, I was able to escape it.
‐‐ Jonathan Banks

I grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that.
‐‐ Carrie Underwood

I grew up in church, so every time I say certain words, I'm like, 'I'm going to get in trouble.'
‐‐ Craig Robinson

I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of 'Fox News' every day and stuff like that.
‐‐ Jeffrey R. Immelt

I grew up in Cleveland and started doing plays in high school. And I went to the University of Illinois, and I majored in drama. And after school, I went up to Chicago, because I didn't really know anybody in New York or Los Angeles, and I knew people who were doing plays in Chicago.
‐‐ Alan Ruck

I grew up in Colombo but was lucky enough to spend a lot of time in the countryside as well. Although there was considerable turbulence, even in the 1950s, it did not throw a shadow on my consciousness.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera

I grew up in Colorado and spent my summers in Montana as a ranch hand.
‐‐ Chris Eigeman

I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks.
‐‐ Sheryl Lee

I grew up in Columbia, Maryland, a planned community built during the sixties. During the early years, it was very integrated. I grew up being taught by black teachers with black principals and vice principals and, you know, a lot of black friends. We played in mixed groups, and I kind of thought that was how it was.
‐‐ Michael Chabon

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.
‐‐ Stephen Sprouse

I grew up in communist Russia where we didn't have anything, so I'm not worried that I can't buy an extra pair of shoes.
‐‐ Margarita Levieva

I grew up in Connecticut, going in and out of New York City, and I worked in the city in the '90s. I was freelancing for the Associated Press, and I fell in love with New York.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario