Grew Quotes · Page 98

I grew up in a great family.

— Brian McBride

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

— John James Audubon

I grew up in Florida, so every now and then, we'd have a garter snake in the lawn. But I'm not super…

— Maulik Pancholy

God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated…

— George Coyne

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

— James Iha

Basically, we've learned to delegate. We just grew tired of becoming too psychotic and straining to make the records ourselves.

— Stevie Jackson

I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

— Chazz Palminteri

What I really appreciate about the music that I grew up to is that I feel like I can put it on…

— Goapele

I grew up a Phillies fan. Me and my buddies tailgated a couple of times when they won the World Series. I…

— Mike Trout

What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did…

— Geraldine Brooks

Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I…

— Matisyahu

I grew up listening to my grandfather's stories of our musical past. He would often talk about the orchestras that played at…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn't grasp…

— Diane Kruger

I think it comes from the fact that we both grew up in it, and both [me and Donald Trump] saw American…

— Mike Pence

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

— Hunter Parrish

I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed…

— Kathryn Stockett

In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that…

— Huston Smith

(Talks about her childhood) I grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Reading, PA. It was the most magical fun childhood.…

— Taylor Swift

I never went shopping. That wasn't my thing. I grew up horseback riding. That was my passion. I didn't start shopping until…

— Mary-Kate Olsen

I grew up as a Muslim. I went to an Islamic elementary school. Most of my community was Muslim, so I grew…

— Ishmael Beah

I grew up in L.A., and I worked for 'The Hollywood Reporter.' I knew enough about the business to know that the…

— Cassandra Clare

Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk…

— Brad Pitt

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning…

— Jane Goodall

I love dogs. I grew up with dogs in my family from the time that I was a little boy; we always…

— Paul Walker

You always hear these stories of people who grew up in Hollywood, and they're like, 'We lost our childhood.' But I was…

— Alexa Vega

I can only write what makes me laugh, and what makes me laugh is the comedy I grew up on.

— Brendan O'Carroll

I grew up in a joint family.

— Pulkit Samrat

I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't…

— Josh Henderson

By putting pressure on myself to develop a great game, I had less pressure to win. These days, I tell kids that…

— Pete Sampras

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

— K. D. Lang

“Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will.”

— Anonymous

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

— Alan Moore

I grew up in a few houses because my dad was a builder, so we used to build and sell quite a…

— Louise Nurding

I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.

— Eric Clapton

Just because I’m telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If…

— Vera Farmiga

With the Beatles, we'd been very spoiled because we had George Martin who worked for the record label we were going to…

— Paul McCartney

When we toppled [Muammar] Gadhafi in Libya, I think that was a mistake. I think ISIS grew stronger, we had a failed…

— Rand Paul

People have asked me why are Australians and Brits so good at American accents, and it's quite simple. We grew up listening…

— Dominic Purcell

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think…

— Jonathan Franzen

I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its proximity…

— Eleanor Catton