All Quotes

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

I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.
‐‐ Alexandra Wentworth

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
‐‐ Al Sharpton

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.
‐‐ Jonathan Pryce

I grew up in the 1960s and wanted to become part of the great space exploration effort, but when I graduated from college in 1974, the Apollo program was over, and the country had moved into this pessimistic mode. We had entered the 'age of limits.'
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
‐‐ Ira Sachs

I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.
‐‐ Kathryn Stockett

I grew up in the '50s, a tough time for African Americans. I had friends whose fathers would openly say, 'Just bite your tongu;, don't cause any problems.' My father was not like that. Even in the toughest times racially, if somebody disrespected his family, they were in trouble.
‐‐ Gregory Hines

I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.
‐‐ Christopher Walken

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
‐‐ Abel Ferrara

I grew up in the '70s and '80s, at a time that I'd argue was the absolute golden age of American popular culture. Because not only did we have all of the fantastic new stuff in print and on screens, but we had a constant supply of everything that came before, as well.
‐‐ Chris Roberson

I grew up in the '70s, and I hear in my own stuff a lot of what I grew up listening to, which is to say I hear a lot of Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder.
‐‐ Jason Robert Brown

I grew up in the '80s, and there was no bigger group than New Edition in R&B. I broke my piggy bank so me and my mom could go to a New Edition concert together.
‐‐ Ruben Studdard

I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
‐‐ Dan Fogler

I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.
‐‐ Jonah Hill

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.
‐‐ Gillian Flynn

I grew up in the '90s, and I loved Nirvana.
‐‐ Josh Trank

I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn't go on stage in jeans and a T shirt you weren't 'real.' That seemed ridiculous to me.
‐‐ Jack White

I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.
‐‐ Action Bronson

I grew up in the '90s, so I've definitely resurrected many looks from my youth lately, including overalls, jelly shoes, and, of course, Doc Martens.
‐‐ Devin Kelley

I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the dust as you bump along in a Land-Rover. I go back there often.
‐‐ Giles Foden