All Quotes

I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.
‐‐ Dana Carvey

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.
‐‐ Sebastian Pinera

I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.
‐‐ Ryan Gosling

I grew up mostly an only child. My dad remarried when I was a teenager. And then I had two stepbrothers. And then my dad had a second child. So I have a brother from the time I was 15. But I really grew up feeling like an only child.
‐‐ Rebecca Stead

I grew up mostly in Germany, but my favorite summer trip was driving from North Carolina to Texas in a camper with my parents and us six kids.
‐‐ Michael Strahan

I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.
‐‐ Colin Angle

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.
‐‐ Moira Kelly

I grew up moving around because my dad was in the Air Force - I think this has carried over into my work in that I like to hop around from one medium to another.
‐‐ Ann-Marie MacDonald

I grew up moving around. I went to seven different schools, so I know what it's like to be that new girl and have to not only know who you are but also take that into foreign circumstances and know how to respond.
‐‐ Debby Ryan

I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.
‐‐ Phil Daniels

I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants.
‐‐ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.
‐‐ Raymond Burr

I grew up near the University of Michigan, so we'd sneak into college parties. That's where my acting started - lying about the professors I supposedly had and what I was studying.
‐‐ Mircea Monroe

I grew up nerdy, scrawny, playing video games, and getting picked on.
‐‐ Josh Keaton

I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.
‐‐ Sandra Oh

I grew up next to the ocean, on the coast, and would dance the salsa all day, so I just learned those rhythms and knew how to move my body when I was very little.
‐‐ Ana de la Reguera

I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.
‐‐ Dave Eggers

I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.
‐‐ Rick Danko

I grew up not having very many girl friends. Girls tend to be competitive. I actually went to the school 'Mean Girls' was written about, so you can only imagine what my high school experience was like!
‐‐ Gillian Zinser

I grew up not liking coffee, even though I'm from Brazil. Then I realized when I moved to San Francisco that it's not that I don't like coffee, I just didn't like the coffee I'd had before. I fell in love with my morning cup of coffee, and my second one at 11 A.M., and so on and so forth.
‐‐ Mike Krieger

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
‐‐ Charley Pride

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.
‐‐ Kevin Wilson

I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.
‐‐ Katy Perry

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.
‐‐ Lysette Anthony

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.
‐‐ Moby

I grew up, obviously, watching tons of animation; Saturday morning cartoons or anything that we could get our hands on. And then when 'The Simpsons' premiered, that just kind of changed the landscape of everything. We hadn't had prime time animations since 'The Flintstones.'
‐‐ Rachael MacFarlane

I grew up off the grid in Vernon, and I saw my parents work hard every day, as teachers but also while farming and building a log home. So from a young age I knew the value of hard work.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.
‐‐ John Catsimatidis

I grew up on a council estate in Luton, and as a child, I was very much into the brass-band tradition. I was basically a Salvation Army boy. My English granddad bought me a cornet when I was five years old.
‐‐ Colin Salmon

I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.
‐‐ Candice Swanepoel

I grew up on a dirt road in Maine, and pretty much everybody on that dirt road was related to me, and they were old. And so grumpy.
‐‐ Elizabeth Strout

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.
‐‐ Josh Holloway

I grew up on a farm.
‐‐ Kelli O'Hara

I grew up on a farm, and I had good, natural South Tyrolean food.
‐‐ Armin Zoggeler

I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense and animals, he was the smartest person I've ever met, before or since. He taught me that to touch an animal is an earned privilege. It's not a right.
‐‐ Ian Dunbar

I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.
‐‐ Chuck Klosterman

I grew up on a farm. I didn't have health insurance until I was 24 years old. So, I didn't even know I was poor until the government told me I was poor.
‐‐ Marlin Stutzman

I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.
‐‐ Garrett Hedlund

I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on.
‐‐ Harold Hamm

I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
‐‐ Larry Harvey

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.
‐‐ Tory Burch

I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.
‐‐ Joanne Froggatt

I grew up on a farm, so there were rifles around. Every March around springtime, there's a big hunt that goes on, and you go out and hunt down all the pheasants. I actually never shot the pheasants; I'm not a big fan of killing animals myself.
‐‐ Joseph Mawle

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
‐‐ Garrett Hedlund

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
‐‐ Eddie Van Halen

I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.
‐‐ Eva Longoria

I grew up on a set and saw my family doing it and thought, 'I can do that too.'
‐‐ Rory Culkin

I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.
‐‐ Nina Bawden

I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children.
‐‐ Andrea McLean