All Quotes

I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way about learning about that different culture. So I grew up in the South, and went to college in the North, and found out that I learned about myself as a Southerner by leaving the South and going to the Northeast.
‐‐ Bruce Feiler

I grew up in the age of polyester. When I got to touch real silk, cotton and velvet, the feel of nonsynthetic fabrics blew me away. I know it's important how clothing looks, but it's equally important how it feels on your skin.
‐‐ Colleen Atwood

I grew up in the age of radio. That was my main boyhood form of entertainment: lying on the living room floor with my ears affixed to the radio. I loved shows like 'The Phantom,' 'Cisco Kid,' and even 'Happy Theater' when I was younger.
‐‐ George Takei

I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was blonde, she was free and she was fun.
‐‐ Catherine Malandrino

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd

I grew up in the Bay Area until 1976, then I pretty much went all the way through primary and high school on Bainbridge, though like anybody who grows up on an island, I ran the first chance I got.
‐‐ Jonathan Evison

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.
‐‐ Kesha

I grew up in the Boys & Girls Club. That's where I really started playing all sports, and that's why I'm a big advocate for the work they do.
‐‐ Frank Thomas

I grew up in the Bronx.
‐‐ Chris Hayes

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
‐‐ Maggie Siff

I grew up in The Bronx. I mean, I was born and raised in New York City. And I started singing in Spanish because I was always just connected to my Latin roots.
‐‐ Prince Royce

I grew up in the Bronx. I used to remember going to all these fancy stores in Manhattan to run errands or whatever, and I felt intimidated, like they did not talk to me because I was from the Bronx. I never want anyone to be intimidated by fashion. Fashion is fun or, at least, should be.
‐‐ Mickey Drexler

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.
‐‐ Jennifer Lopez

I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.
‐‐ Ashley Tisdale

I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort.
‐‐ Armie Hammer

I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me.
‐‐ Jimmy Cliff

I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that's when I started to see radical love; that's when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like.
‐‐ Jeremy Lin

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.
‐‐ Mary Ann Mobley

I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
‐‐ Quinton Aaron

I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the 'metro.' Everybody saw me as a very urban guy. And I was.
‐‐ Per Petterson

I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.
‐‐ Natalie Portman

I grew up in the countryside and always used to wear my parents' Barbour jackets. It is a fantastic British heritage brand.
‐‐ Alice Temperley

I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.
‐‐ Bella Freud

I grew up in the countryside in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo.
‐‐ Nobu Matsuhisa

I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!
‐‐ Rupert Friend

I grew up in the countryside riding horses, and I also ride every holiday in Spain, which is where I was born. It's a big part of my life.
‐‐ Astrid Berges-Frisbey

I grew up in the countryside, so I had quite a feral life up until the age of about fourteen.
‐‐ James Norton

I grew up in the countryside with the factory here, my house 200 metres away, my grandma's house 50 metres away, in a kind of old-style Italian society where everyone works for the family business, everyone lives nearby, and the people you spend your time with are your family.
‐‐ Margherita Missoni

I grew up in the D.C. area, and I used to wear a Redskins jersey just walking around. I just had kind of a bowl haircut for a long time and no sense of style or personal hygiene. But the main thing was the haircut. You know, when you see a haircut of yourself from around 12 or 13, it's rough. I also had really bad acne.
‐‐ Rob Huebel

I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts.
‐‐ Phil Collins

I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.
‐‐ Pauley Perrette

I grew up in the early '70s in New England.
‐‐ Thurston Moore

I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.
‐‐ James Herbert

I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible.
‐‐ Josh Pais

I grew up in the East Village with a lot of old people in my building, and I'm not sure if they lost their sense of smell over the years, but they always seemed to smell like they poured a bottle of perfume on themselves. I never want to become that person.
‐‐ Sarah Hyland

I grew up in the eighties; that's probably why I like some of the earlier electronic from Kraftwerk to all throughout new wave and things like that.
‐‐ Chino Moreno

I grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are their own complete stories; you don't necessarily have to hear the rest of the album because I don't think albums are created like that anymore. They get songs from all over the place.
‐‐ Nile Rodgers

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.
‐‐ Roger Ailes

I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.
‐‐ Cherie Lunghi

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

I grew up in the GOP sandbox. My dad took me, age 7, to meet Herbert Hoover, in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers. He gave me a silver dollar. Being a young Republican, I spent it on comic books.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
‐‐ Bob Cousy

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach

I grew up in the Holiness Church, where prayer was an event.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant

I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.
‐‐ Manny Montana

I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of our apartment, there was blood from some guy who got shot; but inside, there was National Geographic magazines and encyclopedias and a little library bookshelf situation.
‐‐ Lupe Fiasco

I grew up in the industry, so this whole entertainment thing is my world. If I had to leave it, maybe I'd be a race-car driver. That'd be awesome.
‐‐ Mitchel Musso

I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When I was in college, I actually had them change the starting lineup to say 'from Robbins, Illinois' instead of 'Chicago, Illinois.'
‐‐ Dwyane Wade

I grew up in the Justice Department. I served 12 years as a line lawyer in the public integrity section. This department under me will not have any kind of political interference. I will not allow political interference in the Justice Department. Those who might attempt to do that will be rebuffed.
‐‐ Eric Holder