All Quotes

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

I grew up in Russia. We had a telephone line, but a load of our neighbours didn't. It became a shared resource for the whole apartment complex. People would come and knock on the door and ask to call their family in another city.
‐‐ Jan Koum

I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track.
‐‐ Norah O'Donnell

I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.
‐‐ Roman Coppola

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.
‐‐ George Lucas

I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.
‐‐ Sara Zarr

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.
‐‐ David Guterson

I grew up in Seattle, where there isn't a lot of sun.
‐‐ Josie Bissett

I grew up in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and went to college in Washington D.C.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.
‐‐ Ishmael Beah

I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for five generations. I can walk the streets there and point out my father's childhood home, the houses my grandfather built, the farm where my great-great-uncle worked after he emigrated from England in the 1880s.
‐‐ Kim Edwards

I grew up in small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra - places like Akola, Betul, Wardha, Jhansi; I thought the rise of provincial India would be an interesting subject to tackle.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

I grew up in society when lots of things were hidden, and they were not hidden just one way, but it was very complicated.
‐‐ Peter Sis

I grew up in Solihull, on the edge of what was then the Birmingham conurbation. It was a good place to write comedy from. I didn't feel allegiance to anything. I didn't have working-class pride or upper-class superiority.
‐‐ Stewart Lee

I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland.
‐‐ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I grew up in some suburb, I'd come out with a song about potholes in my lawn.
‐‐ The Notorious B.I.G.

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.
‐‐ Charlize Theron

I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.
‐‐ Manfred Mann

I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa, so I have never really acquired a taste for watching television.
‐‐ Alice Krige

I grew up in south London, and I remember watching the scene pop off in East and think, 'Ahhhh, I would love to be in Bow E3 right now spitting wid Wiley and Dizzee.'
‐‐ Stormzy

I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life.
‐‐ Reba McEntire

I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.
‐‐ Rachel Bloom

I grew up in southern California in the '80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.
‐‐ John Scalzi

I grew up in Southern California, Simi Valley. I've lived in the same house all my life.
‐‐ Jason Dolley