All Quotes

When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!
‐‐ Amy Ryan

When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.
‐‐ Sergey Brin

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.
‐‐ Darius Rucker

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, 'This wasn't supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?' Someone should have given her another book to read.
‐‐ Dorothy Allison

When I was growing up, I always saw Karen Millen as a resource for women who were a bit older.
‐‐ Sophie Turner

When I was growing up, I always thought my hair was messy.
‐‐ Julia Louis-Dreyfus

When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi, and I went down there and was a waitress for a few days. Let me tell you, I got it out of my system.
‐‐ Lacey Chabert

When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people.
‐‐ Donald Ray Pollock

When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle - a lot of muscle in high school.
‐‐ Ashley Greene

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.
‐‐ Enya

When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely.
‐‐ Marian Keyes

When I was growing up, I did go to the arcade. We had a neighborhood arcade, and my friends and I would go fairly regularly.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street.
‐‐ Richard Simmons

When I was growing up, I didn't know anything existed outside the borders of Buffalo.
‐‐ Cory Wells

When I was growing up I didn't know what it meant to be a happy, successful grown-up gay person, and now I do. I feel like I'm setting an example for people everywhere.
‐‐ Ross Mathews

When I was growing up, I didn't know who Jewish people were, what it was to be Jewish.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.
‐‐ Martin Scorsese

When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.
‐‐ Judy Blume

When I was growing up, I felt like I had to qualify it and say I'm British-Pakistani. But now I kind of feel like, in this day in age, this is what British looks like. It looks like me; it looks like Idris Elba, and hopefully through Nasir Khan, people will see that that's what an American can look like as well.
‐‐ Riz Ahmed

When I was growing up, I got a lot of, 'Oh, well, she bought the nicest horse, so of course she's going to win.' And I dealt with a lot of that.
‐‐ Georgina Bloomberg

When I was growing up, I just wanted to be somewhere else. I didn't like living in Knockemstiff, and I figured when I got older, I'd move off to some big city.
‐‐ Donald Ray Pollock

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.
‐‐ Bruce Feiler

When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!
‐‐ Meagan Good

When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.
‐‐ Kathryn Lasky

When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
‐‐ Nancy Willard

When I was growing up, I loved the films where you'd start them and the score might sound really odd at first and really different, and then by the time you finish, you can't imagine it being any other way.
‐‐ Steven Price

When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months. That's all I knew, and that's why I don't really belong anywhere.
‐‐ Peter Doig

When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.
‐‐ Azzedine Alaia

When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about 14 years old.
‐‐ Cole Hauser

When I was growing up, I read Britney Spears' and Mariah Carey's biographies. I just wanted to see how they did it because I was so eager to get into the biz.
‐‐ Pixie Lott

When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.
‐‐ Katie Price

When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, 'I will not be successful until everyone in Holland knows my name.' And it worked.
‐‐ Afrojack

When I was growing up, I saw the Aaliyah shirts, the DMX shirts, or the collab shirts with DMX and Aaliyah when they had a single together. Those were the dope collage shirts with their faces all over it. They were doing cool things like that.
‐‐ ASAP Ferg

When I was growing up I spent a lot of time reading about ancient China and was really fascinated.
‐‐ John Fusco

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.
‐‐ Russell Brand

When I was growing up, I used to watch 'Power Rangers' and 'Ninja Turtles.' It seemed like every movie had someone doing martial arts in it, so I would go around punching and kicking trees.
‐‐ Ashton Eaton

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.
‐‐ Angelina Jolie

When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.
‐‐ Markus Zusak

When I was growing up, I wanted to be my half-sister Lucy. She was 14 years older than me and was impossibly glamorous. I grew up in awe of her.
‐‐ Emilia Fox

When I was growing up, I wanted to do Letterman and I loved that live, in-studio model. I still would do something like that.
‐‐ Scott Aukerman

When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.
‐‐ Jeremy Piven

When I was growing up, I was an '80s baby, so I remember the Sega Genesis and the first Nintendo. I grew up in a time when we first started playing video games on a computer screen. Now there are headsets and your body's the controller.
‐‐ Mehcad Brooks

When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure.
‐‐ Ryan Lochte

When I was growing up, I was lucky to benefit from a first class education.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.'
‐‐ Tamsin Greig

When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn't get hung in a locker for two hours. That's a blessing.
‐‐ Carson Kressley

When I was growing up, I was really into 'Rent' and I actually slept on the street in New York all night to get to sit in the first few rows for it.
‐‐ Julia Jones

When I was growing up, I was so fascinated by Mel Blanc and all of the different voices that he did for 'Looney Tunes' and watching Robin Williams record voice-over for the genie in 'Aladdin.' It always seemed to be a major honor - something you have to earn. Like people trust you when they want to have you there without seeing you.
‐‐ Jenny Slate

When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.
‐‐ Hani Furstenberg

When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.
‐‐ Moby

When I was growing up, I was told I was stupid and that I would never achieve. I suffered from dyslexia, and in those days it wasn't recognised.
‐‐ Henry Winkler

When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.
‐‐ Jeremy Renner

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra

When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I wandered right from 'The Babysitter's Club' over to Stephen King. His books were big and fat and they seemed important. I eventually worked my way through most of the shelf, but 'It' is the one that stuck with me.
‐‐ Erin Morgenstern

When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French fried onion loaf. I probably haven't been to one in 25 years, and yet, I once saw Donald Trump from behind in an office building and the first thing that flashed in my mind was his hair looked like that onion loaf.
‐‐ Jami Attenberg

When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day job. You worked free for years in little clubs, then you got your big break and became a star.
‐‐ Elayne Boosler

When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.
‐‐ Nina Hagen

When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
‐‐ Zaha Hadid

When I was growing up in Israel, Cantorial music was something I heard over and over on the radio, so it wasn't at all strange to me. I was very familiar with the music.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman

When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.
‐‐ Flea

When I was growing up in L.A. in the late '70s and early '80s, Michael Jackson's was the first face on TV that looked like mine.
‐‐ Shawn Amos

When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.
‐‐ Cat Cora

When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.
‐‐ George Weah

When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees.
‐‐ Trey Anastasio

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.
‐‐ Diane Lane

When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is.
‐‐ Chris Abani

When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle still grazed on the meadows near Church Farm.
‐‐ Clive Sinclair

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.
‐‐ Ha-Joon Chang

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.
‐‐ Jamie Foxx

When I was growing up in the 1950s, sweaters were a huge thing.
‐‐ Judy Blume

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
‐‐ Alison Bechdel

When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.
‐‐ Joe Dante

When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents.
‐‐ Joe Meno

When I was growing up in the early '70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45, waiting for a single from The Dead, The Clash, David Bowie, or T-Rex or something to be there. There was something about that that was so special.
‐‐ Dave Gahan

When I was growing up in the Forties and Fifties, you could hide your children from the difficulties of life, but today you can't separate children's contact with the adult world today.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

When I was growing up in the Philippines, the story that was read to me most was Pinocchio.
‐‐ Reggie Lee

When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.
‐‐ Aravind Adiga

When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.
‐‐ Diego Luna

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
‐‐ Ethan Zuckerman

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.
‐‐ George Papandreou

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.
‐‐ Drew Gilpin Faust