Grew Quotes · Page 118

I grew up in the theater, and you can't improvise Shakespeare and Ibsen. You have to speak the language. But obviously, in…

— Victor Garber

I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

— Jackson Browne

Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my…

— Marlo Thomas

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in…

— Hal Sparks

My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I…

— Jason Silva

I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother…

— Jared Leto

We all grew up in communities with grandmothers who cooked two, three vegetables that you had to eat. There was no ifs,…

— Michelle Obama

My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back…

— Isabel Allende

I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and my relationship with the piano has been going on for about 38 years.

— Cyrus Chestnut

We all grew up so utterly vulnerable, enthralled by romantic love as we knew it. First of all, it was pounded into…

— Vivian Gornick

I grew up in a middle class household with parents, went to good schools, and never feared for anything, never wanted for…

— Annie Lennox

Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a…

— Joseph Fort Newton

I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which…

— John Graves

The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to…

— Vanessa Bayer

It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play…

— Morgan Freeman

A ghostly smile flickered across his face. "If you weren't so psychotic, you'd be fun to hang around." "Funny, I feel that…

— Richelle Mead

The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free…

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

— J. R. Moehringer

In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not…

— Michael Pollan

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between…

— Frank Herbert

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

— Mickey Rourke

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all…

— Kyle MacLachlan

Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For once, I couldn’t take advice from anyone around me…

— Cecelia Ahern

My ex-husband is very involved in raising our beautiful children. We're very lucky because we both grew up in working families in…

— Reese Witherspoon

The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to…

— Joe Bradley

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

— Damien Chazelle

Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.

— Denis Leary

The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his…

— John Dryden

My dad was a non-denominational preacher, actually a Congregationalist which is really where all congregations come to congregate. That's why it's called…

— Larry the Cable Guy

My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming…

— Margot Robbie

I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have…

— Elena Ferrante

I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some…

— Jerry Jones

I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having…

— Cheri Oteri

I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed…

— Jonathan Tucker

My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic…

— Steven Spielberg

I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have…

— Fab Five Freddy

It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I grew up in a strong family; we had strong family bonds.

— John Howard