Grew Quotes · Page 67

The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.

— Richard Peck

I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness

— Aya Kito

Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at…

— Viola Davis

I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.

— Cameron Diaz

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

— Alison Bechdel

My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.

— Maria Semple

Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.

— Gaby Hoffmann

As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I always tell people that the music industry may be frustrating sometimes, but the singing never gets old. It's something I grew…

— Monica

My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming…

— Margot Robbie

As I grew older I found that I really had a knack for rhyming and I pursued that. So by thirteen I…

— LeCrae

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green…

— Justin Townes Earle

I grew up with, maybe not the best hip-hop in the world, but a lot of hip-hop. Will Smith was, like, my…

— Thomas Rhett

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way…

— Logan Lerman

I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing. I went…

— Stella Young

I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way…

— Matt Groening

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic…

— Sherman Alexie

I mean, I've always felt like a lot of people's misconceptions of me have to do with how I grew up. I…

— Dale Earnhardt, Jr

Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I…

— Matisyahu

The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that…

— Thomas Aquinas

The reason I always loved 'The Omen' so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is anything to do with…

— KaDee Strickland

I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from…

— Bruce Feiler

Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body…

— Swami Vivekananda

It's funny how you can't ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a few feet and…

— Donald Miller

I certainly wasn't the kind of kid that grew up collecting bugs and spiders.

— Cheryl Hayashi

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

— Mira Nair

I love the '50s and grew up loving works from that time period and from those great playwrights.

— Sebastian Stan

I grew up homeless, you know, lived in and out of U-Haul trucks and, you know, apartment houses, friends.

— Donald Driver

I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.

— John Dufresne

I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies.

— Ryan Gosling

I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

— Aaron Paul

My whole childhood I grew up wanting to be a professional basketball player.

— Becky Hammon

I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.

— Jimmy Fallon

We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.

— Julie Otsuka

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

— Diablo Cody

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

— Allan Sloan

I grew up a lot by going to college. I was still really immature.

— Alex Bregman

I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self

— KRS-One

I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. My dad took me hunting, trapping and fishing when I was a kid.

— John W. Thompson