Grew Quotes · Page 59

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my…

— Satish Kumar

Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.

— Michael Strahan

I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.

— Ice Cube

The online video business started in both China and the US around 2005/6, when broadband penetration grew big enough.

— Victor Koo

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

— John Lewis

I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.

— Marco Pirroni

I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.

— Mo Yan

I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.

— Douglas Wood

I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will…

— Rebecca Solnit

I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club'…

— James McAvoy

I grew up raised by my mom and my two sisters, so I never had a real male influence in my life.…

— Todd Phillips

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a…

— James Purdy

I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

— Jan Karon

I'm a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I was in my 20s before I ever went to an…

— Shea Hembrey

I grew up in the country, which is probably why I'm so attached to the land. I love it. I love the…

— Oprah Winfrey

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young…

— Viola Davis

I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan.…

— Sebastian Arcelus

It's nice that I've grown up with the same friends since I was 12, I have a very close knit set of…

— Robert Pattinson

Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It’s…

— Lance Armstrong

I have always been down to test what I can do and push the limits of my acting. I have always wanted…

— Devon Bostick

I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf. Because I grew…

— Aimee Mann

My mom did not have money. She was a single mom, on and off in periods between marriages. My husband, however, grew…

— Debi Mazar

I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store in Queens. It…

— Jessica Valenti

If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Maybe I have an affinity for Andy Griffith because we both grew up in North Carolina.

— Peyton Reed

“He found the slot that people thought best suited him and he crammed himself into it. He grew up.”

— Brian Evenson

Should I be the one to play God? We're both about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.

— George Burns

Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

— Lois Lowry

When I look back on when I grew up, not even football players lifted weights. That was back 50 years ago.

— Jack Nicklaus

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you're both championing a character and you're revolted by them.

— Kevin Spacey

I grew up listening to a lot of Snoop Dogg and the Wu-Tang Clan. Actually, I was a huge Wu-Tang fan.

— Bobby Moynihan

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

— Peter Bart

You couldn't fathom the shit that I've been through. If you could read minds, you'd notice I grew..

— Raghib Clitso

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of…

— Jonathan Pryce

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

— Huey Lewis

I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky.

— Bear Grylls

I grew up very conservatively and traditionally. I wanted to save myself for marriage.

— Linda D. Thompson

My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.

— Zoe Kazan

Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same…

— Peg Bracken