I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of…

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

— Vera Farmiga

Just physically, if you looked at the house that I grew up in, my mother created this greenhouse. And surrounded the entire property. And…

— Kehinde Wiley

I grew up one of six children with working-class parents in the Deep South. My mother was a college librarian, and my father worked…

— Stacey Abrams

“As he grew, the other children grew as well—all except poor Doroon, who seemed doomed to be short and skinny all his life. Rundorig”

— David Eddings

I grew up at 'All My Children;' I got married, had a daughter and made life-long friends there!

— Eva LaRue

'A Clockwork Orange' was filmed near where I grew up, and 'Children of Men.'

— Kate Herron

“Many of the people who left the South never exactly sat their children down to tell them these things, tell them what happened and…

— Isabel Wilkerson

Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

— Emeril Lagasse

The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital,…

— Patti Davis

I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet…

— Anonymous

The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always…

— Philippa Gregory

There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.

— Cecelia Ahern

“I took a step toward her, but she turned from me and stomped back to her car. I watched her drive off. After a…

— Louise Erdrich

I was amazed at the house that I grew up in; it looks practically identical to the way it was, but I couldn't recognize…

— Jim Fowler