Grew Quotes · Page 20

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

— Alicia Keys

I am a sneakerhead, and I grew up a sneakerhead.

— Paul George

I grew up as a competitive dancer.

— Ariana DeBose

I grew up in the inner city. It wasn't a joke.

— Nafessa Williams

We grew up fishing, and we take it seriously.

— Maddie Marlow

I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

— M. Night Shyamalan

I was born in Leeds, grew up in Bridlington.

— Charlie Heaton

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

— Louis Gossett, Jr

I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.

— FKA twigs

My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

— Mary Badham

I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.

— Dawn Angelique

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

— Abraham Verghese

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

— Jason Alexander

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

— L'Wren Scott

I've been the same size since I was 12. They thought I was going to be 7 feet tall. I never grew another inch.

— P. J. Tucker

“The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.”

— Jack Kerouac

It won't suit me anyway if I suddenly do rock or traditional R&B because I grew up as a member of Big…

— Seungri

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 on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money…

— Andrea McLean

I grew up listening to Commission, Kirk Franklin and Hezekiah Walker. If I was found listening to any rap, my pops would…

— Rahki

I grew up as a little 4- and 5-year-old kid, watching Phil Tippett and my dad make monsters in our garage. That's…

— Robert Stromberg

I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.

— Kiri Te Kanawa

The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30…

— Steve Crocker

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark,…

— Charlie Chaplin

You know if you're in Rome, live in the Roman way. I grew up there, I was born there, and so I…

— G-Dragon

I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis!…

— Jacques Audiard

In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

It's so funny; I grew up in the Midwest, I have two older brothers, and you're just as competitive playing football as…

— Jose Pablo Cantillo

My mum and dad ran a family cafe in Sligo for 35 years and worked long hours. We grew up in a…

— Shane Filan

I grew up watching Lindsay and it made me want to do what she does. Just the whole vibe. Being there, being…

— Ali Lohan

I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half…

— Joe Pass

You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a…

— Bill Bryson

I grew up reading American history.

— Jake Auchincloss

I grew up in Punjab when terrorism was at its peak.

— Sonu Sood

I grew up in a very strict Pentecostal household.

— Kelly Price

I grew up inside a broken home.

— Tecia Torres

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

— Janina Gavankar

I grew up in the New York area.

— Kenneth Cole

Just because you become a parent doesn't mean you grew up.

— Ali Wong

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

— Robert Webb