Grew Quotes · Page 72

The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.

— Swami Vivekananda

When I was younger I got accused of gamesmanship but I grew out of it.

— Adrian Lewis

I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.

— Kehinde Wiley

I grew up with it. Any kind of drum you put in front of me, I dont care what kind I can…

— Akon

I'm pleased to say I grew up in a happy family in Dublin. I feel we're very close.

— Domhnall Gleeson

I'm a California girl, right? I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation.

— Meghan Markle

I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals…

— Sharon Van Etten

I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means…

— Junot Diaz

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went…

— Jane Austen

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and…

— Jay-Z

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of…

— Bo Derek

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where…

— Roger Daltrey

I actually grew up in a house in which bees lived in one of the walls, and they lived there 18 years,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I grew up knowing I would be good at athletics, and dreams of a Super Bowl were always within reach as long…

— Matt Willig

I grew up watching MTV, so it's very surreal to me to think that there might be someone out there watching MTV,…

— Davey Havok

John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he…

— Stephen Merchant

I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brother, David,…

— Kiki Dee

My musical background in Tyler, Texas was quite outstanding. Uh, I grew up with, uh, with high school teachers who were in…

— Carl Gardner

I grew up a Baptist and went to seminary at Methodist school, Duke University, but I also don't worry too much about…

— Randall Wallace

I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that…

— Frank Oz

I grew up across the street from, you know, the Villarias, which was a great Mexican family there. In fact, there was…

— Willie Nelson

I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and…

— Derek Blasberg

I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end…

— Jewel

I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.

— Kirsty Gallacher

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

— Billy Corgan

I grew up nerdy, scrawny, playing video games, and getting picked on.

— Josh Keaton

Nudity has never been a big deal to me. I sort of grew up with a lot of it in my family.

— Gaby Hoffmann

I was raised in a black household and grew up with black homies.

— Logic

The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.

— Luis Valdez

I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

— Bela Karolyi

They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.

— Sara Gruen

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

— Akhmad Kadyrov

I grew up watching Mickey Mouse and going to Disney World, like, 2,000 times. Mickey Mouse is like my guru.

— Greg Cipes

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together.

— Martin Lawrence

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

— Pietro Aretino

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount…

— John Barrowman

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

— Harvey Weinstein

I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

— Tammin Sursok