All Quotes

I grew up reading thrillers, science fiction, fantasy - you name it - and one day I asked myself if there was a reason why a fear of spiders was so common. Was there something buried deep in our evolutionary history that made being scared of spiders a survival instinct?
‐‐ Alexi Zentner

I grew up reading Updike. I remember being alarmed to find that he had published short stories by the time he was 22. I think 'Pigeon Feathers' was the first collection of stories I read. Only much later did I discover his non-fiction reviewing and art criticism.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

I grew up really fast when I moved to England when I was 12 years old.
‐‐ Derek Hough

I grew up, really, in the days before air conditioning. So I can remember what it was like to be really hot, for instance, and I can remember what it was like when your barber shop and your local stores weren't air conditioned, so it was hot when you went in them and they propped the doors open.
‐‐ Bill Bryson

I grew up riding all my life, so I was very comfy on a horse, thank God. Although I'd never ridden... with sword in my hand.
‐‐ Joshua Sasse

I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.
‐‐ Halston Sage

I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.
‐‐ Jackson Rathbone

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.
‐‐ Susan Griffin

I grew up rock climbing.
‐‐ Jason Momoa

I grew up running miles of the Norfolk coastline. I'd think nothing of a six-mile run before breakfast. I still run, though not as far and not before muesli.
‐‐ James Dyson

I grew up sailing in the North Sea.
‐‐ Laura Dekker

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.
‐‐ Leah LaBelle

I grew up seeing my sister in the studio. I would go to recording sessions and take notes.
‐‐ Solange Knowles

I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.
‐‐ Edward Brooke

I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.
‐‐ Nell Newman

I grew up singing and dancing, so people have been calling me gay since fifth grade. I've heard everything you could possibly hear about it. But I do love gay people, so I'm not going to act like I was insulted or angry about it.
‐‐ Matthew Morrison

I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I really love the beats and everything.
‐‐ Jessica Sanchez

I grew up singing in church. I've been doing that since I was 3 years old. Singing was a blessing for me to do.
‐‐ Elijah Kelley

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.
‐‐ Connie Britton

I grew up singing since the age of three. Vocally trained since the age of eight. Fascinated by Mary Poppins and all those musical movies and really knew that I wanted to be a performer.
‐‐ Nikki Blonsky

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.
‐‐ Miranda Kerr

I grew up sitting in my closet waiting to go Narnia.
‐‐ Margaret Stohl

I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore.
‐‐ Tom DeLonge

I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things.
‐‐ Jason Lee

I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laugh.
‐‐ Sutton Foster

I grew up sort of lower working class. And I just didn't want to have the money struggles that my parents had. You know, I could just - as loving an environment I grew up in - and I grew up in a great home, a very loving home - but, you know, we had that stress. We had that stress in our life.
‐‐ Elizabeth Banks

I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get to certain parts of Memphis - are more liberal for sure. But I grew up, until I was about 13 or 14, in a section called Whitehaven, and then we moved to a suburb called Germantown - which is a pretty conservative area.
‐‐ Chris Parnell

I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.
‐‐ Julie Gonzalo

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.
‐‐ Jon Secada

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.
‐‐ Sebastian Arcelus

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.
‐‐ Janice Dickinson

I grew up studying dance, taking ballet lessons.
‐‐ Jane Hamilton

I grew up studying martial arts, playing violin, swimming competitively, so I already had athletic focus, discipline and training. When I brought that to climbing, I became passionate.
‐‐ Jimmy Chin

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
‐‐ Lance Reddick

I grew up surfing. My dad probably put me on a surfboard before I could walk.
‐‐ Luke Bracey

I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport.
‐‐ Stanislas Wawrinka

I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women who would argue over what kind of pants you were wearing or the color of your nail polish.
‐‐ Michael Kors

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.
‐‐ Huston Smith

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.
‐‐ Tom Verlaine

I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.
‐‐ D'Angelo

I grew up the biggest fan of the Cure. Knew every lyric, had every album, B-side, single, poster, everything. Then cut to fifteen years later, and we're working on songs together. Ridiculous.
‐‐ Mark Hoppus

I grew up the daughter of a local vicar and the granddaughter of a regimental sergeant major.
‐‐ Theresa May

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.
‐‐ Dean Cain

I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang church music between sips at my bottle, you know? I sat on the piano bench next to my mother. She was the church organist, so that music is deeply inside of me.
‐‐ Al Jarreau

I grew up the son of an acting teacher, so I was kind of introduced to all of these various methods early... I've never been really good at articulating how, what that process is in the way that Stanislavsky could.
‐‐ Vin Diesel

I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, running the country. Which is a thought that continues to give Americans indigestion... Direction is about having a vision, but the practice of being a director is a con game - a confidence game.
‐‐ Mira Nair

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
‐‐ Chuck Berry

I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

I grew up thinking Margaret Cho and Lucy Liu were my idols because that's it.
‐‐ Awkwafina