Grew Quotes · Page 86

It's different when you talk about immigration in the abstract... It's very different when you sit in front of a family, and…

— Mike Coffman

I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies,…

— Noel Wells

That was the action figure I was playing with. I grew up having this fantasy of being a superhero, being Princess Power.

— Milla Jovovich

There are these two strands, the Dionysian and the Appollonian, and in the same theater grew up from these folks who during…

— Howard Rheingold

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

— Katee Sackhoff

I grew up in the countryside as a normal kid.

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew…

— Barry Manilow

I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a…

— Gerard Cox

I grew up on classic Nintendo, which was amazing. My best friends were hardcore into it.

— Johanna Braddy

I have a children's theater background, so I grew up performing for child audiences; it's sort of my specialty. I know the…

— Linda Woolverton

Here and there it happened in my practice that a patient grew beyond himself because of unknown potentialities, and this became an…

— Carl Jung

Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have…

— Armin van Buuren

I grew up in Dubai, all my friends are there and I'm so used to it. It's such an over-the-top kind of…

— Karl Wolf

I grew up on North American sports teams as well as English soccer clubs.

— Ian Astbury

My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do…

— Uzo Aduba

These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around…

— Brian K. Vaughan

I grew up with my cousins, who were as close as brothers, and frankly, I didn't like what girls were expected to…

— S. E. Hinton

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

— Charlize Theron

How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at…

— Michaela Angela Davis

The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep…

— Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

As I grew older, I worked less as an actor and as a model, and I went back to what I had…

— Isabella Rossellini

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot…

— Eric Liu

I grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona, without a television or any connection with pop culture. My father was a director of a…

— Ted Danson

Our generation grew up with the Review as a fact of life. It was America’s literary magazine. To our minds, it still…

— Lorin Stein

Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He loved him…

— Margery Williams

I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was…

— Martina Hingis

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

— Carrie Fisher

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a…

— Anonymous

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

— Heather Matarazzo

I grew up as an only child, and my mother was a single mom. It's always been "us." If it weren't for…

— Edwina Findley

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

— Jodie Foster

I grew up always hanging out with boys, and I always wanted to play rock 'n' roll with boys, and so I've…

— Elle King

I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.

— John Dufresne

I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with. Wherever I go, La Castellane…

— Zinedine Zidane

I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My…

— Dule Hill

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher,…

— Elliott Abrams

When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I…

— Andrew J. Feustel

My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch. I was never really smitten…

— Stephanie Zimbalist

The Marianne Vos Route goes through the seven villages of Aalburg, where I grew up, and celebrates my World and Olympic titles…

— Marianne Vos

My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.

— Cassandra Clare