All Quotes

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

I grew up in Southern Oregon. My father was a sawmill worker and a logger, and his job put food on the table.
‐‐ Jeff Merkley

I grew up in southern Sudan, one of nine children. Our life was simple but very happy.
‐‐ Alek Wek

I grew up in southwest Iowa, on a farm north of Stanton, Iowa, which is a tiny little town, a farming community. I went to Iowa State University and joined Army ROTC while I was there and just have had such a phenomenal life. I am a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
‐‐ Joni Ernst

I grew up in Spokane, Washington, in a very Christian, conservative home.
‐‐ Matty Mullins

I grew up in St. Louis, and I don't know if you've ever been to St. Louis in the middle of summer. There are days in the summer sometimes, weeks in the summer, where the temperature can be over 100 degrees and the humidity can be 100 percent.
‐‐ Scott Bakula

I grew up in St. Louis, and I just couldn't wait until I turned 18 because I wanted to move to New York.
‐‐ Bryan Greenberg

I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
‐‐ Naomi Shihab Nye

I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A.
‐‐ Evan Peters

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.
‐‐ Denis McDonough

I grew up in suburban Brisbane, so to say you wanted to be an actor was a ridiculous concept.
‐‐ Matt Passmore

I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.
‐‐ James Balog

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
‐‐ J. C. Chandor

I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.
‐‐ Patton Oswalt

I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who's really rough-and-tumble, and three very macho brothers.
‐‐ Hilarie Burton

I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.
‐‐ Action Bronson

I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, and my mom was a piano teacher and a painter, so it was kind of a creative environment, and it was kind of in my DNA.
‐‐ Trevor Rabin

I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.
‐‐ Erik Hersman

I grew up in Swaledale, in Iowa. Its population was 220 when I was growing up, and it's probably 150 now. I lived in town and sometimes worked on the farms outside of town in the summers.
‐‐ Tom Drury

I grew up in Switzerland, in this kind of rigidity. It was Protestant, and I was rather shy. That influenced me a lot.
‐‐ Rene Burri

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.
‐‐ John Pilger

I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
‐‐ Mandy Patinkin

I grew up in Texas, and people love their American-made muscle cars there. I grew up around people who loved cars and took care of cars and my dad's a big car nut, so I learned a little bit about cars - how to love them, most importantly. I think that from the time I could remember, I've always envisioned myself in a vintage muscle car.
‐‐ Amber Heard

I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach.
‐‐ St. Vincent

I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We're seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level.
‐‐ Bill Paxton

I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.
‐‐ Dean Ornish

I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.
‐‐ Stark Sands

I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state.
‐‐ Drew Brees