Grew Quotes · Page 83

I grew up in a semi-slum area in Gavipuram, Guttahalli.

— Shakuntala Devi

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact.…

— Navid Negahban

As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred…

— Anya Seton

Constable himself knew the value of such studies, for he rarely parted with them. He used to say of his studies and…

— John Constable

I grew up in Texas, and people love their American-made muscle cars there. I grew up around people who loved cars and…

— Amber Heard

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

— Don Cornelius

If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but…

— Nick Flynn

Now Julie could stay here, in the Keep full of homicidal maniacs who grew teeth the size of switchblades and erupted into…

— Ilona Andrews

I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I was, surprisingly, have…

— Mindy Kaling

I grew up in a rural area. I grew up in deep southern middle Tennessee, probably about thirty miles from the Alabama…

— DJ Qualls

I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's…

— Leonard Cohen

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

ʺYour hair was beautiful too. All of you. You were amazing when we first met, and somehow, inexplicably, youʹve come even farther.…

— Richelle Mead

I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time.…

— Carol Emshwiller

I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm…

— Rachel Boston

I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all…

— Jessica Pare

I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town…

— Dante Ferretti

I grew up with my older brother listening to hip hop, and Jay-Z was the main person I listened to. When it…

— Tinchy Stryder

I grew up in wide-open spaces, but they didn't have the romantic history of the West.

— Robert Taylor

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

— Jon Secada

I grew up in East Germany, and we were short on technology. So my father was really proud to be the owner…

— Apparat

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold…

— Elizabeth Warren

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been…

— Beyonce Knowles

I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go…

— Eva Longoria

I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a…

— Cecelia Ahern

There were six kids in our family, and I grew up fast. I had to do a lot of things on my…

— Matt Dillon

I grew up in the countryside in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

I grew up in Montpelier, Indiana. It's a little town in the northeast corner of Indiana. It's a rural community; about two…

— Kevin A. Ford

As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived…

— Keith Johnstone

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it. I was going to be a priest; I'm proud of…

— Clarence Thomas

Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is…

— Miuccia Prada

I think I've had my taste.I got to work with Sam [L.Jackson]. I can say I did it. I had my shot.…

— Samuel L. Jackson

I grew up in church and I don't think I necessarily understood what it meant to be called into the culture and…

— Shane Harper

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

— Berkeley Breathed

I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I grew up, really, in the days before air conditioning. So I can remember what it was like to be really hot,…

— Bill Bryson

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and…

— Josh Turner

I grew up doing musical theater.

— Chris Colfer

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You…

— Dwayne Johnson

It was actually pretty cool to be in Pittsburgh for those four years. I moved into the dorms and had a pretty…

— Zachary Quinto