Grew up Quotes · Page 10

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

— Lars von Trier

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

— Maurice Sendak

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

— Steve Earle

I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.

— Tina Turner

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

— Gary Busey

Everything I need to know, I learned in Iowa. I grew up here in Iowa.

— Michele Bachmann

My excuse for everything is that I grew up in Florida.

— Daniel Tosh

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

— William Devane

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

— Miles Teller

It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Most of the music I've listened to or grew up listening to - a lot of it at least - is instrumental…

— Flume

My mom has always been very open, very liberal. So I grew up with that, and I can appreciate everything that she…

— Ione Skye

I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made…

— Ving Rhames

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what…

— Kesha

I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most…

— Carre Otis

Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City.…

— Hayley Atwell

For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York…

— Anonymous

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

— Tara Brach

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. But, I wanted to put a somewhat different spin on it. The whole trope…

— George R. R. Martin

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I…

— Frank Miller

I've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to…

— Corey Taylor

I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer,…

— Wes Bentley

My elementary school is still there [in Luttrell, Tennessee]. I drop by my high school. It's a small community. I say this…

— Kenny Chesney

[I was] particularly eager to give voice to the women of my mother's place and generation, who grew up in turn-of-the-century, privileged…

— Tina Howe

Six out of seven times we landed successfully [on the Moon]. I wanted to be a part of that and I was…

— Buzz Aldrin

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an…

— Tom Wolfe

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 in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to…

— Bell Hooks

Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned…

— Michael Crichton

Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon…

— Robert Aris Willmott

We all grew up in communities with grandmothers who cooked two, three vegetables that you had to eat. There was no ifs,…

— Michelle Obama

When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.

— Bill James

I grew up in a household in which the Bible played very little role.

— Frank Moore Cross

I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

— Patricia Arquette

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

— Emmanuel Jal

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

— Jackson Browne

I'm a hip-hop head, I grew up with it. So I've always loved the music.

— Neil Drumming

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

— Christopher Durang

My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.

— Joan Van Ark