Grew Quotes · Page 188

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and…

— Maya Angelou

Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was…

— Val Kilmer

I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of…

— Kim Gordon

I was a big Drum and Bass junkie when I grew up.

— Sarah Harding

At every point I wished that I was born English. They need to make it colder in here. You could hang meat…

— Mike Myers

I grew up in the theater, and you can't improvise Shakespeare and Ibsen. You have to speak the language. But obviously, in…

— Victor Garber

I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

— Jackson Browne

Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my…

— Marlo Thomas

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in…

— Hal Sparks

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

I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother…

— Jared Leto

We all grew up in communities with grandmothers who cooked two, three vegetables that you had to eat. There was no ifs,…

— Michelle Obama

My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back…

— Isabel Allende

I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and my relationship with the piano has been going on for about 38 years.

— Cyrus Chestnut

We all grew up so utterly vulnerable, enthralled by romantic love as we knew it. First of all, it was pounded into…

— Vivian Gornick

I grew up in a middle class household with parents, went to good schools, and never feared for anything, never wanted for…

— Annie Lennox

Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a…

— Joseph Fort Newton

I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which…

— John Graves

The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to…

— Vanessa Bayer

It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play…

— Morgan Freeman

A ghostly smile flickered across his face. "If you weren't so psychotic, you'd be fun to hang around." "Funny, I feel that…

— Richelle Mead

The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free…

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

— J. R. Moehringer