Grew Quotes · Page 127

I grew up in Paris. Well, in the suburbs of Paris.

— Camille Rowe

I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I…

— Ira Glass

I do eat what I want. I love meat - I'm Cuban: I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo.…

— Natalie Martinez

I grew up with a lot of brothers and male cousins, so I had to worm my way in to get heard.…

— Liz Phair

Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all…

— Kenneth Grahame

I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever…

— Christopher Egan

I was born into a Catholic family. I grew up in West Belfast. Faith was very important to us eight children and…

— Mairead Corrigan

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable…

— Greg Bryk

Tea with us became more than an idealisation of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.…

— Okakura Kakuzo

I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre.…

— Deborah Harkness

We forgot about Buddha. We forgot about God. We developed a coldness inside us that still has not thawed. I fear my…

— Julie Otsuka

I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the…

— Chris Carmack

I grew up in a big ol' Latin family, so that's all the music we used to play - salsa music. We'd…

— Ryan Guzman

I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I…

— Ramon Rodriguez

Going to Liberia really changed a lot for me. I didn't realize what was happening on the same planet. My understanding that…

— Tim Hetherington

I love bowl games. I really do. I like it more than the kids do. I grew up a poor kid in…

— Barry Alvarez

Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew…

— Oprah Winfrey

My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street.…

— Florence Welch

I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

— Nana Mouskouri

I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.

— Milla Jovovich

I grew up in one of the most deprived parts of Britain. I know the problems which inner-city children face.

— David Blunkett

I grew up in the west of Ireland, and Galway was our local seaside resort. We'd go for one day of the…

— Philip Treacy

When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.

— Sean Harris

I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.

— Lamorne Morris

You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that…

— John Updike

I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in…

— Karen Mills

As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types.…

— Jillian Hervey

I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

— Alexandre de Betak

I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one…

— John Irving

I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living…

— Ben Affleck

It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I was a great friend of the Europeans. I grew up in Wiesbaden. I love Germany very much.

— Tyler Drumheller

I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was…

— Salman Rushdie

We've now got a group of young people in this country who for all practical purposes are American. They grew up here.…

— Barack Obama

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is…

— Albrecht Durer

I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.

— Isabel Burton

I grew up in Brooklyn.

— Johnny Kelly

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

— Lewis Grizzard

'So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on…

— William Shakespeare

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

— Liam Neeson