Grew Quotes · Page 39

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

— Samuel Johnson

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

— Miranda Kerr

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

— Pam Grier

I grew up with an extremely funny dad, and my mom is super funny.

— Paula Pell

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

— Katey Sagal

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and…

— Alan Jackson

I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.

— Richard Flanagan

I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.

— Demian Bichir

I grew up in an area of a lot of growth, in Orange County, California, and spent most of my youth on…

— Aaron Peirsol

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up…

— Alex Haley

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it…

— Barry Commoner

I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized…

— Coco Lee

I grew up such a fan. It was my life. Everything I did was hockey related and everything I have is because…

— Wayne Gretzky

I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American…

— J. C. Watts

None of us grew up feeling like winners. So thank you to the bullies, to the popular kids, to the gym teachers…

— Steven Levitan

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant…

— Alicia Keys

In effect, I grew up in a sort of timewarp, a place where times are scrambled up. There are elements of my…

— William Gibson

I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable…

— Michael Rapaport

Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair…

— Oscar Wilde

I grew during segregation in an all-black segregated neighborhood with segregated schools, etcetera. I was raised by a great father, my hero,…

— Shelby Steele

The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the…

— Luther Standing Bear

Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and…

— LeBron James

I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about…

— Ted Naifeh

The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path,…

— Annie Dillard

I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I…

— Jai Courtney

I grew up in wide-open spaces, but they didn't have the romantic history of the West.

— Robert Taylor

I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.

— John Darnielle

I grew up on basketball, volleyball, that sort of thing. For me, track and field was a whole 'nother beast.

— Stephan James

I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.

— Wolfgang Puck

I adore Dartmoor, where I grew up, and the Cotswolds are amazing.

— Michael Ball

I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I grew up with so many different songs that the ones that are fun to play are the ones I want to…

— Bruno Mars

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.

— Miranda Kerr

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

— Lee Child

Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up.

— George Sampson

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

— V. S. Naipaul

I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference.

— Natasha Leggero

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

— Bradley Cooper