Grew Quotes · Page 61

“I grew up on a solid diet of The Golden Girls. It wasn’t just a sitcom to me—it was a blueprint for…

— Jen Kirkman

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

— Alan Moore

I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California.

— Susan Straight

I happen to think like a man, and do certain things guys like to do. I grew up around boys.

— Rihanna

I grew up walking around naked in my house. My mom was like that, and my sisters.

— Jennifer Lopez

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this…

— Will Ferrell

Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to…

— Eliza Dushku

I grew up in St. Louis, and I just couldn't wait until I turned 18 because I wanted to move to New York.

— Bryan Greenberg

I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies,…

— Harry Belafonte

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the…

— Pablo Neruda

The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B.…

— Paul Di Filippo

My father was a very good golfer and he got me started early. My grandfather played, too. It was just something that…

— Steve Kroft

My neighborhood was a great neighborhood; it was filled with all sorts of ethnic groups and things. So I grew up thinking…

— Chita Rivera

I grew up in East Germany, so we had to learn Russian in school... everybody hated it. I never thought it would…

— Tom Wlaschiha

I grew up extremely fast. I was racing at the age of five. I was racing on a semi-national level by the…

— Justin Allgaier

And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when…

— Scott Bakula

When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about.…

— David Sedaris

When I was a freshman, I was 5 feet 9 and totally skinny as a pole. Knock-knees and bad hair. Then, over…

— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

I have nothing but the best memories of growing up in New Jersey. Of course, I grew up in a nice town,…

— Lesley Gore

It is not easy to explain how I felt while I read, but I will try. No doubt you, as a reader,…

— Tatiana de Rosnay

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my…

— Andy Gibb

I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was forced to…

— Vik Muniz

Hybart is a little community I grew up in, so it was just a wonderful time in those years. I was the…

— Jeff Sessions

The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for…

— Nelson Mandela

Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.

— Marian Engel

I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.

— Laura Benanti

I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell's version of "A Case of You." My mom was a huge Joni Mitchell fan.

— Cheyenne Jackson

I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

— Jerry Falwell

I grew up in the Philippines, and I don’t think there is a problem with the typhoon. It’s normal for us.

— Manny Pacquiao

the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.

— Anne Truitt

My childhood was very sheltered. I grew up in a palace. But I lived in Morocco as a Moroccan citizen.

— Mohammed VI of Morocco

I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.

— Chris Hayes

I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.

— Erik Hersman

I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.

— Shinya Yamanaka

I grew up in LA. I sort of watched the Raiders play and that sort of thing.

— Jay Hernandez

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

— Rex Stout

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

— Kitty Carlisle

I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.

— Isabel Burton

I grew up around the Luxembourg Gardens, so I guess that is my best memory.

— Emmanuelle Seigner

I studied and grew as a man so that the situation of being wrongly accused wouldn't define me.

— Brian Banks