Grew Quotes · Page 58

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

— Chad Hugo

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.

— Louis C. K

In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a…

— Kumi Naidoo

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.

— Hayley Mills

The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

— Laura Vandervoort

The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.

— Bobby Seale

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

— Anonymous

I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends…

— Larry King

I was always an actress, even as a little kid, and fantasy, horror, sci-fi stories are really all about playing make believe.…

— Virginia Madsen

I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds…

— Wolfgang Puck

I've never had coffee. I've always hated the smell. It was always tea. I was a pretty typical kid, though. I grew…

— Billy Corgan

I grew up, probably like a lot of people, on cartoons. And I never thought I would have the chance to be…

— Anonymous

Technology changes the medium. I grew up on watching a box in my living room that made my parents happy. After something…

— Dan Harmon

Television has been very good to me. I grew up on it, and it had quite an impact on me. I'm entertaining…

— Judy Reyes

I grew up going to the store, seeing the products [of L'Oréal ], seeing the commercials and the ambassadors. I never in…

— Lewis Hamilton

Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away.…

— Alexander Downer

For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said…

— J. Michael Straczynski

I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or…

— Ralph Stanley

It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings,…

— Bernard Lewis

I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a…

— Nic Pizzolatto

When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, 'Watch out for the system, watch out for child…

— Liz Murray

Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with…

— Kiran Desai

If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is…

— Bruce Springsteen

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

— Danielle Steel

I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.

— Jerry Herman

This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.

— J. V. Cunningham

I grew up just as my friends did until 19 before leaving home, and it's because of that I am who I…

— N'Golo Kante

I grew up with the Boston vibe and the Catholic vibe. I don't want to put anybody out.

— John Krasinski

I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age…

— C. Thomas Howell

Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.

— Diane Setterfield

I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.

— Navid Negahban

I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster.

— Irvine Welsh

I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life.

— Anna Kournikova

From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.

— Sue Monk Kidd

We are here to repair the world. I grew up thinking that was what everybody was trying to do.

— Marianne Williamson

I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I…

— Bruno Mars

You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.

— Alan Ball

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

— J. C. Chandor

My loneliness turned itself inside out and I grew myself a kind of perverse pride.

— Phyllis Gotlieb