All Quotes

I grew up in New York.
‐‐ Yunjin Kim

I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

I grew up in New York, and I've always been surrounded by fashion. My grandmother used to write for 'Vogue' in the '50s, and my mother was a dancer and a model.
‐‐ Dean O'Gorman

I grew up in New York City, a town with different races, religions, and peoples. It breeds tolerance.
‐‐ Donald Trump

I grew up in New York City, and both my parents worked. On weekends, we'd go out to the country, and on Sunday nights we'd come back. Sometimes we were a little cranky - it was a long drive. But we could always look forward to one thing: my mother's ziti and meat sauce.
‐‐ Christa Miller

I grew up in New York City, and I'm a city boy, born and bred.
‐‐ Ben Schnetzer

I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
‐‐ Maggie Wheeler

I grew up in New York City. I went to museums so much as a kid, and I guess I didn't realize how much it affected me.
‐‐ Lisa Randall

I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.
‐‐ Gail Carson Levine

I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.
‐‐ Michael Rapaport

I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis.
‐‐ John Pomfret

I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.
‐‐ Jeff Greenfield

I grew up in New York, I love New York.
‐‐ Caroline Kennedy

I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.
‐‐ Erik Estrada

I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.
‐‐ Steven Strait

I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.
‐‐ Kerry Washington

I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.
‐‐ Gabriel Macht

I grew up in New York where there is such a different variety of people.
‐‐ Selenis Leyva

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.
‐‐ Antony Hewish

I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.
‐‐ Ken Jeong

I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.
‐‐ Louise Erdrich

I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I'm not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it's the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.
‐‐ Olivia Colman

I grew up in North Yorkshire, but now London is home.
‐‐ James Norton

I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.
‐‐ Tracy K. Smith

I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies.
‐‐ Grant Show

I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.
‐‐ Summer Sanders

I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.
‐‐ Jonathan Ames

I grew up in northwest London on a council estate. My parents are Irish immigrants who came over here when they were very young and worked in menial jobs all their lives, and I'm one of many siblings.
‐‐ Amanda Hale

I grew up in Nova Scotia, so there weren't a whole lot of rules.
‐‐ Diego Klattenhoff

I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
‐‐ G-Eazy

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.
‐‐ Nina Blackwood

I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.
‐‐ Rita Dove

I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.
‐‐ Brad Pitt

I grew up in one of the most deprived parts of Britain. I know the problems which inner-city children face.
‐‐ David Blunkett

I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.
‐‐ Gail Collins

I grew up in Orange County, without a team. I never affiliated myself with the Chargers, south of me, or the Raiders, north of me. I've always followed the Dallas Cowboys. I've been a huge fan since the early '90s.
‐‐ Stephen Colletti

I grew up in Oregon, and then I lived in San Francisco and New York.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.
‐‐ Katee Sackhoff

I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
‐‐ Karl Marlantes

I grew up in Oxnard, CA, and I went to a church called St. Paul, where I was playing drums. My mom had a strawberry company. The whole town of Oxnard is basically built on produce, and more particularly, strawberries.
‐‐ Anderson Paak

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.
‐‐ Jessica Lynch

I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was the only good thing about it.
‐‐ Keith Haring

I grew up in Perugia, Umbria, in a world outside of fashion, so I didn't learn about it until I was older and moved away. In Milan, the women are really into fashion, and all the big fashion brands are based there, but I don't think they feel pressure to look good all the time.
‐‐ Monica Bellucci

I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
‐‐ Tamara Tunie

I grew up in Pittwater, north of Sydney; Elvina Bay, Scotland Island area. I had to go to school by boat. To get to the mainland, we had to go by boat, so it was just a way of life.
‐‐ James Spithill

I grew up in Plano, Texas.
‐‐ Hunter Parrish

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.
‐‐ Harvey Weinstein

I grew up in Portugal, and people there party 'til 7 or 8 in the morning there.
‐‐ Sara Sampaio

I grew up in poverty and my mother had to sacrifice a lot for us to eat and get an education - just imagine in a house where we were more than six children! But hard work and dedication is what it took for me to be here today.
‐‐ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.
‐‐ Emmanuel Jal

I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

I grew up in Queens, and on Sunday evenings, my parents would drive my brother and me past the factory. We could smell the week's supply of bread baking. I always connected the 59th Street Bridge with that scent. Who woulda thunk, years later, I'd be there, directing and producing a hit TV show?
‐‐ Don Scardino

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.
‐‐ Grant Bowler

I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.
‐‐ Frida Giannini

I grew up in rural Arizona. My dad ran a general store.
‐‐ Ann Kirkpatrick

I grew up in rural Oregon in a log house with bark left on inside and out. We had no electricity, a massive stone fireplace, a grand piano, and tons of books.
‐‐ Virginia Euwer Wolff

I grew up in rural Pennsylvania, in a really rundown old house. I'd stay out till 8:30, 9:00 at night. Just blow in. My mom and dad never really cared much. It was okay. We were pretty free to roam. I mean, I had no concept of stopping play. It just didn't occur to anyone.
‐‐ Michael Keaton

I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library, and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.
‐‐ Michael Sims