Grew Quotes · Page 149

I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and…

— Jake Owen

I grew up watching 'Star Trek.' I love 'Star Trek.' 'Star Trek' made me want to see alien creatures, creatures from a…

— Michael Dickinson

My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around…

— Meshell Ndegeocello

I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming…

— Questlove

I grew up around a lot of boys - all my friends on my street were boys, so I was the only…

— LIZ

I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very…

— Cherie Lunghi

I actually grew up hearing this a lot: 'If you're an actor, you can only be an actor, and you have to…

— Todd Louiso

I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution.…

— Rafael Cruz

Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the…

— Alan Watts

I grew up in a very difficult country, a very oppressive situation because of the Somoza dictatorship. My family was in opposition…

— Gioconda Belli

I have always been physically active. I grew up a tomboy and [was] into sports, so staying active is something that I…

— Tricia Helfer

I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve…

— J. California Cooper

Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch,"…

— Edgar Allan Poe

But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves…

— William Browne

We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was due…

— Franny Billingsley

I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at…

— Matthew Quick

I’m not going,” he said. He held up the Third key like a weapon. Sensing his mood, it grew longer and sharper,…

— Garth Nix

When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went…

— Dorothy Wordsworth

In art class at school we learned how to draw tanks and soldiers opening fire at [Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khomeini and his…

— Hassan Blasim

All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some…

— Raina Telgemeier

I've always loved dogs and have had one since I was three. We bought her from a kid selling puppies out of…

— Bob Peterson

With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate…

— John Spratt

But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him…

— Leo Tolstoy

My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant…

— Pete Seeger

I grew up not liking coffee, even though I'm from Brazil. Then I realized when I moved to San Francisco that it's…

— Mike Krieger

My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew…

— William Kentridge

I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all. Looking back on my…

— Angela Cartwright

When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and…

— Michel de Certeau

I was born on the island of Singapore, and I grew up there until I was 11 years old, when I was…

— Kevin Kwan

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

When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can…

— Mandy Moore

I grew up in Hollywood. My father always told me that this is a job. These events are filled with people you…

— Troian Bellisario

I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere…

— Wole Soyinka

Instead of responding to these attacks with a vigorous intellectual counterpunch, many believers grew suspicious of intellectual issues altogether. To be sure,…

— J.P. Moreland

I'm in California, so I know people who are natives who tell me there's lots of weather here, but it's not the…

— Martha Ronk

People roll their eyes and say, "Oh god, he's not rich or famous." I say it's relative. I mean, look at me:…

— Bradford Cox

The field was even greener than my boy's mind had pictured it. In later years, friends of ours visited Ireland and said…

— Duke Snider

Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I…

— Sally Hawkins

That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists…

— Bill Ayers