All Quotes

When I was growing up, my dad and I would go hunting and camping every weekend. Like everyone in my family, he is an amazing cook, and I've tried to learn a lot from all of them.
‐‐ Zac Brown

When I was growing up, my dad didn't have weights, so he made himself a weight bench. Instead of a hand-me-down jacket, it was a hand-me-down weight bench.
‐‐ Jason Statham

When I was growing up, my family was serious about manners. I always wanted to put my elbow on the table to prop my head up. I didn't understand how other people looked awake. My head felt so heavy after the whole day.
‐‐ Margherita Missoni

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.
‐‐ Mr. T

When I was growing up, my favorite movie was 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve, which is a hugely romantic, sappy movie. I couldn't understand it when the guy didn't get the girl or the girl didn't get the guy in love stories. I was definitely a sap.
‐‐ Scott Michael Foster

When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.
‐‐ Ryan Murphy

When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener.
‐‐ Jeff Kinney

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire.
‐‐ Andrew O'Hagan

When I was growing up, my mother always wore Chanel.
‐‐ Alice Dellal

When I was growing up, my mother only put her foot down once: She said, 'You are going to college.' And that was a lifesaving moment. But she never talked to me about my clothes or hair. So I learned how to parent my kids through her.
‐‐ Jada Pinkett Smith

When I was growing up, my mother taught me and my sisters to celebrate each other - there was no room in our household for negativity. She taught us to embrace each other, and this was empowering for us. She also taught us the value of celebrating our differences.
‐‐ Alek Wek

When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.
‐‐ Marlo Thomas

When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when life is tough your instinct is to close your heart. But if you can accept what happened and reach out to someone, there will always be someone less fortunate, or someone that can bring a solution and help your life.
‐‐ Jane Seymour

When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the dinner table and recount the day.
‐‐ Isabel Gillies

When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum in elementary school and high school... There is a permanent record today, and it's called the Internet.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.
‐‐ Tom Hooper

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.
‐‐ Jill Scott

When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not listen to other people. That was hard for me.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'
‐‐ Thomas Friedman

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.
‐‐ Bill Gates

When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.
‐‐ Karin Slaughter

When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'
‐‐ Adam Beach

When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the only art that was presented to me was Abstract Expressionism. But I was interested in the grim stuff. It seemed more exciting.
‐‐ Peter Saul

When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.
‐‐ Bobbie Ann Mason

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?
‐‐ Susie Orbach

When I was growing up, our nation was partitioned: Blacks were segregated by law in the South and largely by custom in the North, though it, too, had segregation laws. Our best universities had quota systems. Many white communities had real estate covenants to keep nonwhites out.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.
‐‐ Linda Hunt

When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
‐‐ Vince Staples

When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were being made by lawyers. I followed the court very intensely and wanted to do that for my life.
‐‐ Leah Ward Sears

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.
‐‐ Steve Vai

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
‐‐ Roddy Doyle

When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.
‐‐ Jerry Spinelli

When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.
‐‐ Kevyn Aucoin

When I was growing up, the people who liked the Beatles, I didn't like, so I didn't pay attention to them.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.
‐‐ Julianne Moore

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.
‐‐ Kiran Desai

When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.
‐‐ John Slattery

When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that I read was from the '60s and '70s, older than me.
‐‐ Lauren DeStefano

When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul.
‐‐ Andrew O'Hagan

When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.
‐‐ Kevin Rollins

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as a touring ukulele player.
‐‐ Jake Shimabukuro

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

When I was growing up, there was still that narrative of 'you finish school, you go and get married, you become somebody's wife and you get kids and tend to them.' I think it is really important to reach for something.
‐‐ Juliana Rotich

When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.
‐‐ Rory Bremner

When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.
‐‐ Queen Latifah

When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff.
‐‐ Swizz Beatz

When I was growing up, there were times I had to compete against boys in tae kwon do, and I'd show them right away that I wasn't someone to mess with.
‐‐ Katheryn Winnick

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role models. I never dreamt that I could be at that level. I remember thinking they seemed so elegant and regal and powerful and feminine.
‐‐ Dorothy Hamill

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.
‐‐ Mike Krzyzewski

When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.
‐‐ Sally Kirkland

When I was growing up, we had a bungalow in New Jersey which we visited in the summers. Everybody in that small community was named Feldman and was either an aunt or cousin of mine. I just found it comfortable to use the name Feldman.
‐‐ Stanley Elkin

When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
‐‐ Patricia Polacco

When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference.
‐‐ Leila Aboulela

When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.
‐‐ DeForest Soaries

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
‐‐ Park Chan-wook

When I was growing up, yearning with my pals to be a track star, one of our heroes was Bruce Jenner. He won a gold medal at the 1976 Olympics in the decathlon, and he adorned our Wheaties boxes. We all wanted to be Bruce Jenner.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof

When I was growing up, you'd read about actors, and they'd never tell you their age and how much they made a year as part of their definition.
‐‐ Robert Osborne

When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.
‐‐ Christine Sinclair

When I was growing up, you would put on a KISS record or a UFO or Aerosmith record and listen to it from the first song through the last song. It's been so long since a band has put out a record like that.
‐‐ Steven Adler

When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
‐‐ Baz Luhrmann

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.
‐‐ Ty Pennington

When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.
‐‐ Vanna White

When I was heavier, I danced and I jumped out of planes. I've always rejected the idea that there's a certain look or size that makes it acceptable to live life.
‐‐ Kathy Najimy

When I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
‐‐ Kate Winslet