Grew Quotes · Page 107

I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one…

— Ang Lee

I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish…

— Channing Tatum

I really look to past generations. I think my grandparents, friends' grandparents, or even parents of my older friends grew up in…

— Elizabeth Rogers

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.

— Adam Oates

It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each…

— David Abram

I was born in Oakland and grew up, probably about five miles from Oakland, in Hayward. And Hayward was OK. Like, Hayward…

— Mahershala Ali

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive…

— Murray Walker

I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early,…

— Pauley Perrette

When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin.

— Ming-Na Wen

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started…

— Eric Williams

I grew up with 'Star Wars' and was a massive fan of the original films.

— Andy Serkis

Love can produce the children, but it has nothing to do with the raising of the children. I grew up thinking, 'Oh,…

— Brooke Shields

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

— Gary Busey

When I was little, I had to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I wrote, 'I…

— Ellen Greene

The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had…

— Gary Krist

Early in life, when I first saw waterlilies on the ripples of a lake, I didn't think they were flowers which grew…

— Lucian Blaga

All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It's weird I used to do a New…

— Robert Pattinson

I grew up watching old black and white movies where Marlene Dietrich or Jean Harlow would go walking down some cobblestone street…

— Ellen Greene

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight…

— Black Elk

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.

— James Vincent McMorrow

I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I…

— Mariana Klaveno

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

— Graham Hawkes

I would absolutely identify as a New Yorker by nature. I grew up in Detroit. There was not a bone in my…

— Kristen Bell

I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the…

— Henry Thomas

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

— Derek Hough

My dad doesn't like religion much, but I grew up very close to the Baptist tradition. God isn't this distant thing. God…

— Lucy Alibar

Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

— Bill Vaughan

I grew up with a very privileged background. My father served as one of the cabinet ministers in Arroyo's government, and he's…

— Miguel Syjuco

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

— Kris Allen

I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation. I do think there's some value to really throwing…

— Meghan Markle

I grew up on films.

— Sam Rockwell

As a Latin man, obviously immigration has been a part of my culture for decades. [I] grew up understanding what you go…

— Wilmer Valderrama

My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful…

— Joan Collins

In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

— Allan Sloan

To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his…

— Leo Buscaglia

I grew up in a family where the love of stories is very strong. And there's also a love of performance. I…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think that's a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense.…

— Michael Symon

I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushing myself…

— Shawn Levy

I grew up in Altadena, California.

— Martine Syms