Grew Quotes · Page 129

I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in…

— D.J. Cotrona

I grew up a plumber's son in Philadelphia.

— Mike Vogel

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

— Bob Cousy

My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm…

— Benjamin Booker

There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I was 17 when I auditioned for 'Miss Saigon.' I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a…

— Lea Salonga

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray…

— Albert Camus

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind…

— Elton John

I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very…

— Lucretia Mott

We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know…

— iO Tillett Wright

I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend,…

— Nina Bawden

I grew up in an eclectic house where people were listening to all types of different music. I also think being educated,…

— Tinie Tempah

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild…

— Abraham Lincoln

I had been reading a lot about pioneers in Australia and the colonization of Australia, and pioneers in Virginia and the early…

— Ben Richards

I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was…

— Catherine Malandrino

My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant…

— Martin Donovan

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me.…

— Ving Rhames

I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.

— Eminem

The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving…

— Haruki Murakami

The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated.

— Janet Leigh

I like Instagram, I grew up on it.

— Harris Dickinson

As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.

— Robert Burns

I grew up with an older brother, so I'm pretty good at being bashed around.

— Carey Mulligan

I can't believe it. Maybe there is a God after all. Herbal supplement sales only grew 1 percent last year. The years…

— Dean Edell

In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone…

— Kina Grannis

I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up…

— Lloyd Banks

I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference.

— Natasha Leggero

I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was…

— Shawn Ryan

I appreciate and love the way I grew up.

— Shawn Porter

Fame doesn't make me any different. I am the same man now who grew up in the hard streets of Panama. I…

— Roberto Duran

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre…

— Alan Furst

I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and…

— Tania Raymonde

I grew up watching 'Dawson's Creek,' and I started watching 'The Vampire Diaries' when I was auditioning because I wanted to get…

— Phoebe Tonkin

I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.

— Mary Meeker

I wasn't ready to write my own songs when I was in my early 20s. I'm still growing but I definitely grew…

— Mark Stoermer

Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The…

— Rob Zombie

I grew up on a dairy farm in Southeastern Connecticut, and I went into the Peace Corps right after college. I went…

— Bruce Wilkinson

I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was forced to…

— Vik Muniz

I grew up around fashion - my mom was an editor for Vogue. Compared to the music industry, though, I'd say [fashion]…

— Zachary Cole Smith

I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his…

— Martin Gore