Grew Quotes · Page 42

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

— Yancy Butler

Most of the music I've listened to or grew up listening to - a lot of it at least - is instrumental…

— Flume

I grew up on North American sports teams as well as English soccer clubs.

— Ian Astbury

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Because I grew up in McAllen, we would watch Televisa a lot.

— Cristela Alonzo

If you grew up in the 60's or 70's, and didn't do drugs I don't trust you.

— Danny Danko

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what…

— Kesha

I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I’m a nerd…but I grew up with a Nintendo controller…

— Zachary Levi

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I…

— Martin Scorsese

I think that's important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as…

— Noel Clarke

Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era…

— Zhang Xin

Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there…

— Diane Nash

I grew up as a Christian, and I always think of Jesus as someone right next to us, you know, someone really…

— Diogo Morgado

I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited…

— Neil Farber

I was actually born in New York. We lived there until I was three so I grew up watching Sesame Street and…

— Saoirse Ronan

As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but…

— Idina Menzel

I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an…

— Mary Ruefle

I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules…

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Images are no longer what they used to be. They can't be trusted any more. We all know that. You know that.…

— Wim Wenders

Mom's a writer, so I grew up reading scripts and I have a real respect for them and I know how much…

— Naomie Harris

Money is both the generation and corruption of purchased honor; honor is both the child and slave of potent money: the credit…

— Francis Quarles

I think I've done a lot of movies that people would like to have seen a sequel to. But I grew up…

— Kurt Russell

I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to…

— Brian J. White

Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit,…

— Bart Millard

My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden…

— Lord Byron

I've had pets my whole life, and I grew up with pigs and cows.

— Eric Stonestreet

I grew up in the Holiness Church, where prayer was an event.

— Iyanla Vanzant

I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

— Rachel Roy

Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

— Larry Gagosian

I grew up on 'The Timewaster Letters' and 'Look Around You.'

— Jamie Demetriou

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

— John Pilger

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

— Sebastian Pinera

I grew up craving the spotlight, and once it happened, I immediately recoiled.

— Megan Fox

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

— Keith Jarrett

I grew up in Barranquila, Colombia, and I spent most of my childhood dreaming about becoming a singer.

— Shakira

I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.

— Carrie Fisher

La guerre, la guerre, everything la guerre. That's how I grew up. So for me, it's real. It's not something in the…

— Mark Helprin

I grew up in a pretty small town in Texas, population 8,000, and we had a lot of open spaces.

— George Eads

She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew.

— Edmund Spenser