I'm not ashamed, or embarrassed. I'm happy that I grew up listening to gospel music and came from where I came from.… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Many people I've met believe that plants are made up of soil-that the tree outside your house, for example, is mostly made… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean… — Jolene Blalock Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what… — Kesha Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, and Angela Lansbury, so I grew up wanting to sound like Patti and… — Susan Egan Copy Share Image
We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created. — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
It had occurred to Sean once - on a bender about ten years before with some buddies, Sean and a bloodstream full… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness,… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Boys & Girls Club. That's where I really started playing all sports, and that's why I'm a… — Frank Thomas Copy Share Image
In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I remember crying all the time. My major thing growing up was I couldn't fit in. Because I was from everywhere, I… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I noticed - and this is one of the people don't understand of Tony [Abbot] - he grew. To me he grew… — Warren Mundine Copy Share Image
I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs… — Kyle Chandler Copy Share Image
I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice. — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
I grew up in Arizona. I love it. I'm a part of the desert. I feel like, really, I'm from the Sonoran… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood.… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
