Grew Quotes · Page 140

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

— Zosia Mamet

I think I became funny because I grew up in the Bronx. I was small and weak and Jewish instead of large…

— Dave Barry

I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked…

— Elizabeth McCracken

I grew up knowing about [Ted] Bundy because I grew up in Aspen and that is one of the places he kept…

— Boti Bliss

I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

— Dwyane Wade

As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than…

— Linda Kaplan Thaler

I love driving fast. I grew up in Germany; we have the Autobahn here, where we can drive without a speed limit.…

— Kim Dotcom

Well, you know I grew up wanting to be a Clemson Tiger and I ended up being able to play there and…

— Lee Brice

I think 'Lost' was really a pioneer in the use of the kind of connection between a television show and the Internet,…

— Carlton Cuse

I wasn't the athletic kid in my family. Both of my brothers were on athletic scholarships and my dad played semi-pro hockey.…

— Trevor McNevan

I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more…

— Howard Schultz

Spidey was the one comic I read consistently throughout my childhood. As someone who grew up a nerd, scrawny, and picked on…

— Josh Keaton

I grew up in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, in the early '90s, and hospitals and doctor's offices offered to x-ray candy.…

— Cory Michael Smith

You know, I grew up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl.

— Kyra Sedgwick

Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in…

— Thao Nguyen

I grew up in a strong faith-based family. I think I have selected to return to those roots for strength, for my…

— Paula Broadwell

I grew up speaking English and Punjabi. Just living and working in Punjab and smelling the early morning air and sitting down…

— Kabir Bedi

I didn't have any idea what I wanted to be when I grew up.

— Tom Sturridge

Widowhood provided Mama with a higher form of being. In refusing to recover from my father's death she had discovered that her…

— Vivian Gornick

I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never…

— Donald Johanson

I just grew up with it [The Simpsons]. The first season came on when I was 5, 6 years old, and the…

— Eric Andre

Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for…

— Neil Gaiman

I grew up spear-fishing, so I've always had a breath hold.

— Tanc Sade

I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the…

— Warren Ellis

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this…

— Will Ferrell

I grew up in the South, and our way of dealing with each other was teasing, ribbing, making fun and scrapping in…

— Wynton Marsalis

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

— Muhammad Yunus

But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom…

— Yasunari Kawabata

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what…

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

If you grew up in the 60's or 70's, and didn't do drugs I don't trust you.

— Danny Danko

I'm very lucky that I grew up writing.

— Maisie Peters

So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who…

— George J. Mitchell

I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.

— Julie Gonzalo

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

As I grew up I became increasingly interested in philosophy, or which [his family] profoundly disapproved. Everytime the subject came up they…

— Bertrand Russell

I grew up in California. I was outside of the city, not directly in it. So I did have an experience of…

— Larry Wilmore

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get…

— Thor Heyerdahl

I was born in Leeds, grew up in Bridlington.

— Charlie Heaton

I watched this documentary on Madonna. I remember I grew up hearing she wanted to rule the world. Actually, she worked really…

— Winona Ryder

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So…

— Steven Tyler