All Quotes

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

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.
‐‐ Giada De Laurentiis

I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals.
‐‐ Konrad Lorenz

I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.
‐‐ Martin Scorsese

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
‐‐ Liev Schreiber

I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' Matthew 25:40.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

I grew up in the Methodist church. My wife grew up in the Baptist church. And wives get everything they want. So we got married in the Baptist church.
‐‐ Rick Scott

I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on another corner and the Nazi Party was on the third corner.
‐‐ Andrew Young

I grew up in the middle of dairy country in Wisconsin, about as far from any major metropolitan area as you can get. I always assumed I was going to be an actor. I don't know why. I didn't have any reason to think that. In fact, when I finally did try it, when I was in college, I was really bad at it and didn't enjoy it.
‐‐ David Wroblewski

I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did.
‐‐ Alicia Keys

I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.
‐‐ Michael McMillian

I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.
‐‐ John Malkovich

I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'
‐‐ Derek Blasberg

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.
‐‐ Bill Goldberg

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.
‐‐ Diablo Cody

I grew up in the military. I've lived that life. I know that our soldiers are out there fighting for our right to vote, and they're out there fighting for other countries' rights to vote... Guys have been dying for it, and we have to go out and exercise it.
‐‐ Robert Griffin III

I grew up in the motel business, and it evolved into hotels.
‐‐ Penny Pritzker

I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.
‐‐ Kiri Te Kanawa

I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures: because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky

I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

I grew up in the Northeast; I've seen hurricanes before and trees down and cars destroyed.
‐‐ Casey Neistat

I grew up in the once segregated South. I experienced forced integration during my formative school years. I lived the sacrifices, burdens, and tears. I also lived the moments of understanding, of acknowledgment, of fellowship and success. I saw my parents and grandparents coming home beaten down - and some of my friends beaten up.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, where it's all about being comfortable. I try to bring that undercurrent to what I do. It's great to have beautiful, dressed-up clothes that still feel casual.
‐‐ Chris Benz

I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan

I grew up in the projects. You have no choice but to fight. My jokes used to get me in fights.
‐‐ Marlon Wayans

I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.
‐‐ Paul Engle

I grew up in the same place as my mother, seeing the same trees my mother saw when she was at work; the flowers I picked were the flowers that my grandma planted. We have different styles; I wouldn't make the same clothes that my mum made, or my grandma, but we have the same taste.
‐‐ Margherita Missoni

I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.
‐‐ Jerry Falwell

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

I grew up in the Silicon Valley when it was a bunch of apricot groves, and now it's this center of incredible activity. So I have this sense of what technology has done for this region, and I want to spread it to the world.
‐‐ Timothy C. Draper