Grew Quotes · Page 66

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

— George Takei

My parents were entrepreneurs. I grew up believing in the power of innovation.

— Noreena Hertz

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.

— Pearl Cleage

I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up…

— Josh Turner

Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever…

— Wayne Newton

Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.

— Henry Ward Beecher

As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.

— Patti Smith

My high school was nothing like West Beverly High, let me tell you. I grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio.

— Luke Perry

I grew up watching 'Dawson's Creek,' and I started watching 'The Vampire Diaries' when I was auditioning because I wanted to get…

— Phoebe Tonkin

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many…

— Steve Kanaly

You learn so much from your parents. We grew up in a home where we were definitely taught to be confident. I…

— Venus Williams

Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves…

— Dmitri Volkogonov

I grew up with an incredibly loving and supportive family that gave me the impression there were a lot of options for…

— Esperanza Spalding

I grew up in leafy suburbs in north and east Belfast, but if I had been born a mile down the road…

— Mike Nesbitt

I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle;…

— Ruth Negga

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well…

— James Nesbitt

I don't know if it was a defining moment. I knew it as soon as I could comprehend the possibility of having…

— Columbus Short

And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth…

— John Steinbeck

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in…

— Michael N. Castle

God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated…

— George Coyne

I know that Dad was an idol to millions who grew up loving his music and his ideals. But to me he…

— Julian Lennon

I was introduced to skateboarding through my father. He was a surfer back in the 50's & 60's in Hawaii, where my…

— Christian Hosoi

[Qhuinn looking a Blay] A tear escaped from that eye . Welling up along the lower lid, it coalesced at the far…

— J.R. Ward

I just feel like the world is our oyster. I grew up knowing that my mother is a journalist and was one…

— Liz W. Garcia

I grew up on 'Lawrence' and 'Zhivago'. A legacy with not one but multiple timeless classics.

— Josh Gad

I find it very easy to love because I grew up in such a loving family.

— Donna Air

My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where…

— Chaka Khan

I'm proud of who I am, and I'm proud I grew up in Puerto Rico.

— Raul Labrador

My friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they're used to it.

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was…

— John Corigliano

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when…

— Helena Bonham Carter

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me

— Yoenis Cespedes

I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard.

— Hunter Hayes

I grew up watching Didier Drogba play, he was an example for me.

— Victor Osimhen

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

— Heather Matarazzo

I live in L.A., I grew up here, it's not that crazy for me because it's L.A., you know?

— Michael Welch

Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

— Bill Nye

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

— Heidi Klum

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

— Susan Griffin

I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

— Alison Bechdel