Grew Quotes · Page 45

I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects.

— Natalie Dormer

Spring Break is very strange. I grew up in France, so I don't know Spring Break. That doesn't exist in Europe.

— Alexandre Aja

I grew up in L.A., but I was the only one in my family born there.

— Blake Lively

I grew up in the theater, went to school for directing and playwriting.

— Jerrika Hinton

Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.

— Taylor Momsen

I grew up as the ugly duckling, they called me 'la prieta fea', which means ugly dark one - that was my…

— Eva Longoria

About time you grew up and became a vampire like the rest of us.

— Claudia Gray

“You're like a flower that grew through a crack in the sidewalk, he told me”

— Kristen Ashley

(His) sadness grew; it became a rock inside him, pulling him down. He carried the sadness everywhere, morning, noon, and night. It…

— Kevin Henkes

When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As…

— Tony Parsons

I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented:…

— Harriet Tubman

I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when…

— Laura Esquivel

I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to…

— Mark Wahlberg

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy…

— Odette Annable

Despite my mother saying I have been destined to be an actress my whole life, I remember being the kid who grew…

— Shantel VanSanten

When I found out that I was going to be singing with Jennifer Holliday, I literally freaked out! I grew up listening…

— Jessica Sanchez

As a child, as far as I was concerned, my dad had an amazing job, and we had all the money we…

— Artie Lange

In Britain, there's kids who grew up in London and then kids who didn't. You become quite street wise. It's such a…

— Ben Lloyd-Hughes

The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to…

— Elizabeth Strout

Remember that day you said you loved me? Remember that? See, you could do that because you're basically a sane person, who…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So…

— Chelsea Clinton

For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of…

— John Berendt

But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted to…

— Jodi Picoult

As members of a minority, one that was often persecuted, that entrepreneurial perspective was burnished with a sense of "outsider" status -…

— Lewis Schiff

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion…

— Roger Ailes

I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.

— Seth Rogen

I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.

— Naomi Judd

I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled.

— Lupita Nyong'o

How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.

— Margo Lanagan

I grew up with my two sisters and my mom, so it's my lot in life to be surrounded by women.

— Bill Hader

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

— Shay Mitchell

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

— Tom Verlaine

The lifestyle that I grew up in, it was passed on to me. I didn't know there was another world.

— Richard Cabral

I grew up in one of the most deprived parts of Britain. I know the problems which inner-city children face.

— David Blunkett

I grew up in the suburbs, which I don't think shaped me very much.

— Andrew Sean Greer

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

— Elbert Hubbard

I was never tomboyish. I loved Barbies. It's just the way I grew up.

— Poppy Montgomery

My interest in India began with my interest in Indian painting and music and that grew.

— James Ivory

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

— Chuck Berry

I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them.

— Tessa Thompson