Grew Quotes · Page 69

I grew up in Dallas, and my dad works for IBM, so I grew up in the environment of Silicon Prairie.

— Scott Michael Foster

I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker.

— Matt McGorry

I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day.

— Steve Clevenger

I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under…

— Adam Shankman

I grew up in Southern Oregon. My father was a sawmill worker and a logger, and his job put food on the…

— Jeff Merkley

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

— Don Cornelius

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed…

— Al Sharpton

We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on…

— Jonathan Cain

I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major…

— Samantha Bond

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started…

— Eric Williams

Private equity does pay very well, and my counterparts, guys that I grew up with who are still working at a number…

— Gerry Schwartz

I was doing community theater, and I was always interested in acting, but I was also interested in sports. I was interested…

— Willem Dafoe

Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of…

— Lily Tomlin

I was born in Australia and grew up in the foreign services. I had this kind of trans-Pacific life. I think I…

— Jane Alison

Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you…

— Bill Bryson

If you look even at Pittsburgh, where I grew up, you've now replaced steel jobs with technology jobs, and they pay better.

— John Kasich

I saw all that [white trash] growing up in Alabama and Georgia. I had a group of country cousins and we'd go…

— Steve Young

“Hannah, as if she understood her place in the cosmos, grew from quiet infant to watchful child: a child fond of nooks…

— Celeste Ng

I grew up with sentiments such as, "Do what will make you happy, troubles are God's redirections that something good will come…

— Bernie Siegel

If we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own…

— Mark Boyle

I grew up in repertory theaters, so it was comedy one night, drama the next. I'm used to going from one to…

— Howard Shore

My biggest downfall is my inner voice. Growing up as a dancer makes you very judgemental with yourself. You learn to look…

— Carmen Electra

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

The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach…

— Paul Engle

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.

— Leslie Banks

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

— Charles de Gaulle

I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry

— Lee Majors

I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.

— Aja Naomi King

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

— Kenny Chesney

I grew up watching Cinemax, the late-night Cinemax of the '80s and early '90s.

— Owen King

With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really…

— Cara Buono

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

— Jasmine Guinness

I got to meet some of the best people I've ever met, and we all grew as people and as entertainers.

— Carrie Underwood

When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.

— Nina Simone

I had a gypsy upbringing, so I moved around all over the place and can't remember a street I grew up on.

— Vanessa Hudgens

When I grew up, you'd see shorts before movies. I know it happened a lot more before I started going to the…

— Nash Edgerton

I grew up with the MCU, but when I was in seventh grade, something clicked.

— Iman Vellani

I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of…

— Reese Witherspoon

Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.

— Howard Rheingold

Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry.

— Alden Ehrenreich