Grew Quotes · Page 119

We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.

— Jenifer Lewis

I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly…

— Mac Barnett

I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.

— Eiza Gonzalez

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up…

— Greta Gerwig

When I was a kid I had an imaginary friend and I used to think that he went everywhere with me, and…

— Jimmy Carr

I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture…

— Chuck Klosterman

I grew up in Sheepshead Bay.

— Jim Gaffigan

Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out…

— Jerry Leiber

Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

— Mike Myers

Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even…

— Virginia Woolf

Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He…

— Jerzy Kosinski

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Everything with me is normal except when I pitch (in Fenway Park). When I pitch here it's a little different. There is…

— Tom Glavine

And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it — it's a miracle that once a year so many…

— Nora Ephron

I grew up in Russia. We had a telephone line, but a load of our neighbours didn't. It became a shared resource…

— Jan Koum

We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy…

— Angelina Jolie

Eating vegetables, fruits and grains rarely causes total destruction of the plant or tree on which the food grew; after harvesting, seeds…

— Sharon Gannon

I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.

— James Wolk

I kind of forget what it's like to be a dude who grew up in the south sometimes. I want to refresh…

— Drake

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

— Lee Trevino

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

— Kim Basinger

It's good to be back in New York. I have lived here ten years. I'm originally from Indiana. I know what most…

— Jim Gaffigan

I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced…

— Matt Groening

I watch the weirdest things. I watch old episodes of 'Golden Girls' because my mom watches it, so I grew up watching…

— Matthew Moy

We grew into something that we didn't even know was possible.

— Rose

I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep…

— Mike Vallely

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent…

— Charles Stross

I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I…

— Anna Kendrick

I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when…

— Jeremy Lin

I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just…

— Tracy Morgan

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

— Lee Child

I was pretty much a child of 'Monty Python.' I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot…

— Michael Jai White

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west…

— Kelli O'Hara

I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my…

— David Harewood

I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the…

— Maggie Lawson

When I grew up music was something I did on the side - I played sports, I went to school - and…

— Joe Armstrong

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.

— Jimmy Fallon

I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was…

— Jody Hill

For a long time I thought I knew for sure who I was. I grew up in New Orleans and became a…

— Ellen DeGeneres

to know a piece of grass, you’ve got to see the ground that grew it. Maybe that’s why I remember every detail…

— Ally Carter