I grew up in a happy household.

I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.

— Vladimir Nabokov

...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint,…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I'm pleased to say I grew up in a happy family in Dublin. I feel we're very close.

— Domhnall Gleeson

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

— John le Carre

I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere but it…

— Wole Soyinka

I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew…

— Tayari Jones

I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see…

— Garrett Hedlund

I grew up loving cars. It was completely and utterly, without a doubt, my childhood dream. Whether your childhood dream progresses or changes, you…

— Dominic Cooper

Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew…

— Vincent Canby

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in…

— Cate Blanchett

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

— Frank Langella

I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders…

— James Herbert

That's what actually caused me to run for office is, you know, my family story, the experience of growing up in a family where…

— Ted Cruz

I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie:…

— Grimes