Grew Quotes · Page 62

I grew up Catholic, so I have these defenses about listening to anything with too much religiosity; some of the lyrics didn't…

— Patty Griffin

It's fun playing the judge, because I grew up on all the courtroom stuff in movies and TV. So, you know all…

— Doug Benson

A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.

— Patterson Hood

Charisma, that's my strong point. My personality was always good, but with music I had to grow into it. I grew into…

— Schoolboy Q

I grew up doing martial arts, and I love martial arts movies and fight scenes. I'm pretty athletic, so I enjoy doing…

— Aaron Yoo

I try to find some time for my horses. I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew…

— Andrea Bocelli

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in…

— Lisa Marie Presley

My parents inspired me by their example. They both grew up in the Depression, and both of them had to quit school…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every…

— Twyla Tharp

My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.

— George Thorogood

When I became a Christian my confidence grew.

— Cliff Richard

I grew up loving David Letterman and Pee-wee Herman, but as far as live performance comedy, all I knew were the Jerry…

— Scott Aukerman

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets…

— Walter Bagehot

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

— Michael Caine

Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and…

— Isaac Hayes

I grew up in the '80s, and there was no bigger group than New Edition in R&B. I broke my piggy bank…

— Ruben Studdard

I've been singing forever; I grew up singing in church.

— Sevyn Streeter

I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my…

— Condoleezza Rice

The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire,…

— Brian Blessed

I grew up in New England at the edge of the Atlantic and have for many years been an avid rower. I've…

— Rosemary Mahoney

It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she…

— Samuel Johnson

My mother was very involved with me. And we had a dialogue constantly. And it was like an umbilical cord. As long…

— Howard Stern

I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do…

— Phil Collins

I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.

— Colum McCann

His [Frank Sinatra] voice defined not only a certain period of time, but America and what America meant to the world. Sinatra…

— Robert Davi

I grew up in West Jakarta, in a middle-to-low-class neighbourhood.

— Rich Brian

People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had

— Ann Aguirre

I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my…

— Rob Reiner

I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

— Dante Alighieri

We both grew into the people we wanted each other to be.

— Alec Baldwin

I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

— Ai Weiwei

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

— Bobby Moynihan

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

— Laura Benanti

I grew up, obviously, watching tons of animation; Saturday morning cartoons or anything that we could get our hands on. And then…

— Rachael MacFarlane

The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough.…

— Cornel West

I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so…

— Andrew Wyatt

My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in…

— Michael Franti

Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the…

— Andy Partridge

When I grew up, I saw the moon landing, and I was fascinated watching them as a child, and that's what really…

— Ronald D. Moore