Grew Quotes · Page 85

I grew up in the spoken-word community. Before everybody had a home studio, or before we could get booked for shows, open…

— Macklemore

Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

— Bill Nye

There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even…

— Orson Scott Card

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

— Samuel Johnson

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of…

— Anonymous

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 am proud to be Italian because I was born in Italy, I grew up in Italy, I went to school in…

— Mario Balotelli

I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview,…

— Patrick Stump

All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.

— Steve Kazee

Most of us grew up with a very damaging story that something is wrong with us. Gradually - or as in my…

— Tara Brach

Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a…

— Jay-Z

The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to…

— Elizabeth Strout

The Swedish folk music - I can't hear any connection between my music and fiddle tunes, but I guess since I grew…

— Gustav Ejstes

I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.

— Jessica Hahn

And then we came here for three weeks of band rehearsal with [music consultant/member of the band "Sloan"] Chris Murphy. And I…

— Alison Pill

Her business manager said, you know, Gilda [Radner] left you that house. That's when I decided to stay and test it out.…

— Gene Wilder

When I grew up, there were no teletypewriters or video calls, so I primarily interpreted phone calls. At that time, where I…

— Jack Jason

I grew up in suburban Brisbane, so to say you wanted to be an actor was a ridiculous concept.

— Matt Passmore

I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones,…

— Bucky Pope

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

— John Ratzenberger

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

— Pam Grier

Each actor is different. When I did 'Misery,' Kathy Bates, who's a stage trained actress, loves lots of rehearsal. Jimmy Caan, who…

— Rob Reiner

Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.

— Taylor Momsen

My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up.…

— Talib Kweli

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

— Jessica Lynch

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

— Connie Britton

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

— Molly Ivins

I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.

— Erik Estrada

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough…

— Maggie Siff

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

— Emily Watson

Dance removes you from this construct of the world that you have, and it's a conversation that you're having with people. That's…

— Stephen Boss

I’m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I’d do when I grew up; I never…

— Louisa May Alcott

I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.

— Miles Teller

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and…

— Jennifer Garner

If you grew up in a dysfunctional family, then there is really no hope for you to have a good relationship. That…

— Gary Chapman

We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I grew up about 30 minutes north of Boston in a town that was a virtual melting pot - I was exposed…

— Alex Newell

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.

— Pitbull

I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who…

— John Malkovich

I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players…

— Daniel Rossen