Grew Quotes · Page 49

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

— Amy Poehler

When I look back, I'm glad I grew up in a small town. There, it's just you, your family and whatever you…

— Champ Bailey

I grew up playing 'Mortal Kombat' as a kid. I was always a fan of the video game. Saw the movies as…

— Brian Tee

I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate.

— Guy Pearce

I was always very small, so growing up, I was always getting kicked around. It was something I kind of grew up…

— Christian Pulisic

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still…

— Emily Watson

I've been dealing with epic images, and I realized all of a sudden that I grew up in the age of epics.

— Robert Longo

I grew up in Canada and was a huge Spider-Man fan, and never thought of Spider-Man as an American hero.

— Jake Epstein

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around…

— Paul Goldberger

I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with. Wherever I go, La Castellane…

— Zinedine Zidane

I like zombie movies, and I like genre movies a lot. To watch. Less so to make, I think. But I grew…

— Jonathan Levine

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly…

— Colin Firth

I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York.…

— Billy Eichner

I grew up watching classic animation, and I have always felt that the roots of animation is in fantasy and taking it…

— Chris Wedge

I was always bigger than the other girls. My sisters are very, very beautiful and very skinny, and I've always had a…

— Gina Carano

The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that.

— Jeff Sessions

I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in…

— A. S. Byatt

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some…

— Anne Lamott

I dropped my juggling balls and my face grew embarrassed. It wasn't until then that I looked around the circus of life…

— Stefanie Schneider

I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang church…

— Al Jarreau

I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports…

— Clint Howard

I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as…

— Michael Gungor

But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan. Overnight I became a good player. I suppose it had something…

— Sherman Alexie

It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber?…

— Tim Lebbon

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

— Julie Bowen

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

— Huston Smith

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as…

— Matt de la Pena

I grew up in a little pit village on the outskirts of Durham.

— Sara Davies

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

— Lars von Trier

I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or…

— Kate Upton

I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

— Dwyane Wade

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any…

— Tory Burch

I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.

— Liya Kebede

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

— John Lone

I'm a regular dude from Kansas who grew up with pigs and cows.

— Eric Stonestreet

I kind of grew breasts overnight and then the world got really loud.

— Rose McGowan

Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

— Alison Bechdel

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

— Clarence Thomas

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

— Hunter Parrish