Grew Quotes · Page 73

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was…

— Isaac Mizrahi

One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

— E. O. Wilson

As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

— Will Durant

Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of…

— Jane Siberry

This is baseball, this is in my blood, this is what I grew up with.

— Ernie Johnson Jr

We kind of grew up in an environment that enabled us to be ourselves.

— Orianthi

I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and N.W.A. and I never went out and shot nobody.

— Eminem

“It was no waste of time. You learned. You grew. You’ll do better next time.”

— Toni Sorenson

I'm a Tennessee boy. I grew up in East Tennessee most of my life, then came up to Philly to go to…

— Shane Claiborne

The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right…

— Pat Barker

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned…

— Christopher Marlowe

I'm a happy guy. I like to joke around. I'm irreverent. I love my family; I love my son. I was very…

— Neymar

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what…

— G-Eazy

The majority of my family is Auburn fans, and I grew up watching Auburn football, and that's always who I've cheered for.

— Katherine Webb

I grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play,…

— Billie Jean King

I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived…

— Rick Atkinson

I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport.…

— Dallas Roberts

We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we…

— Ann Brashares

I grew up listening to Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, and Angela Lansbury, so I grew up wanting to sound like Patti and…

— Susan Egan

We grew up in a praying home [with Alex Kendrick], we saw incredible answers to prayer in our parents' lives, they grew…

— Stephen Kendrick

We walked for some time, and grew to know each other, as best as we'd allow. These are some of the high…

— Harlan Ellison

My dancing came about as a way to be cool, actually. I knew early on that I was not a street kid.…

— Michael K. Williams

There is one rule for the G-7 (richest countries) and another for the South. The G-7 now preaches open economies and liberalization,…

— Jeremy Seabrook

Our dad hugged us and kissed us so much that some friends and relatives complained that he was going to turn us…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

— Giada De Laurentiis

I grew up in New York where there is such a different variety of people.

— Selenis Leyva

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.

— Ken Burns

I grew up in a very culturally diverse area of America and I am very proud to come from there.

— Steve Clevenger

I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always…

— FKA twigs

I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.

— Paul Weller

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

— Armie Hammer

Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life.

— Ezra Koenig

I love the puzzled look on people's faces when I mention I grew up telling time according to television.

— Joe Zee

Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

— Kevin Spacey

I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi. It's a dot on the map 100 miles north of Jackson.

— Grace Hightower

I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

— Germaine Greer

I grew up watching and learning from the ultimate partnership, and that is of my father and late uncle.

— Jonathan Tisch

I grew up in a country where the environment was very social justice-oriented.

— Moshe Safdie

I grew up in a house full of music. Everything from reggae and afro-beat to Zook and pop.

— Estelle

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

— E. O. Wilson