All Quotes

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

I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
‐‐ Carlos Santana

I grew up in the small town of Greenfield Center, New York, which is in the foothills of the Adirondacks not far from the city of Saratoga Springs. It is a place I love, close to the forests and the mountains.
‐‐ Joseph Bruchac

I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
‐‐ Patrick Wilson

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
‐‐ Anson Mount

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.
‐‐ Alice Walker

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.
‐‐ Lisa Marie Presley

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
‐‐ Angela Davis

I grew up in the suburbs.
‐‐ Rosemarie DeWitt

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.
‐‐ JR

I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation, entertainment, and mental activity, all helpful to the nurture of an imaginative child who wanted from an early age to be a writer.
‐‐ Stephen Hunter

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.
‐‐ Cass McCombs

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often.
‐‐ Devon Werkheiser

I grew up in the suburbs of a small town on the south coast where the only opportunity I ever got to wear anything smart was a funeral, so I had never owned a piece of clothing worth more than £40.
‐‐ Tom Odell

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.
‐‐ James Iha

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin

I grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut - during the school time of year - but I preferred it in New Hampshire. I preferred the culture, the landscape, the relative solitude. I've always loved it.
‐‐ Donald Hall

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.
‐‐ Anna Sui

I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
‐‐ Pamela Stephenson

I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.
‐‐ Dave Foley

I grew up in the suburbs, so I figured 'Why not try downtown living?' And, honestly, I love it. I've been very pleasantly surprised at how much downtown Indianapolis has to offer.
‐‐ Andrew Luck

I grew up in the suburbs, so I remember arriving at Waterloo and seeing Big Ben and the coloured lights on top of the Southbank Centre and thinking, 'Wow!'
‐‐ Martin Freeman