Grew Quotes · Page 57

My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.

— Gabe Polsky

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young…

— Chely Wright

“I grew on you, though," Jace stated confidently. "Eventually," Alec agreed. "Like moss, or a skin disease.”

— Cassandra Clare

I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.

— Joe Manganiello

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

— Robert Reich

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

— Leighton Meester

I was always into sports games. Never really played anything else. I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam.

— Chris Paul

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

— Jacqueline Bisset

I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were…

— Manuel Moroun

I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager.…

— Colin Hanks

London exists normally in a state of bleach bypass. There's the artistic context of "Blow Up" and "Performance" and all the Sixties…

— William Monahan

There is only a policeman in front of something you have need for and don't have access to, so you put a…

— Jacque Fresco

I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's…

— Aneurin Barnard

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small…

— Kenny Chesney

I grew up in a house where there were no taboos, so it came originally from a pretty innocent place, where I…

— Sarah Silverman

Ironically, I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood. I grew up watching…

— Jan Koum

I have to admit I've rarely been happier in my life. I have been absolutely thrilled to be back in New York…

— Richard Schiff

We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling…

— Rachel Griffiths

... people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and…

— Dorothy Gilman

We all need to kind of preach to ourselves. I grew up in church, and I don't think I necessarily understood what…

— Shane Harper

It's different when you talk about immigration in the abstract... It's very different when you sit in front of a family, and…

— Mike Coffman

I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in…

— Stephen Hunter

“All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper.…

— Tim Lebbon

My wife Jennifer's family is all from there. Jennifer grew up there, so we have personal ties forever - her mom, dad,…

— Peter Buffett

I grew up on Nintendo. Mario was my best friend. I can't wait to get inside and play Nintendo GameCube.

— Mandy Moore

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

— Demian Bichir

I grew up with a great sense of insecurity in figuring out what I was and where I belonged.

— LeCrae

But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.

— Obie Trice

I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay…

— Alexis Arquette

I'm a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them.

— Josh Hartnett

I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

— J. Michael Straczynski

I grew up on N.W.A., Geto Boys. My dad was listening to that.

— Freddie Gibbs

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

— Anne Roiphe

I grew up really fast when I moved to England when I was 12 years old.

— Derek Hough

I grew up with a big family. I want that. I want to have my own family.

— Ryan Lochte

I wrote a graphic novel called 'Soul Stealer' with big, beautiful, epic artwork by Chris Shy. It grew into a trilogy.

— Michael Easton

I wasn't able to afford high-end brands or any of that, so I grew up on streetwear.

— Fred Foster

She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

— Tom Petty

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

— John Shelby Spong

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the…

— Kelly Clarkson