Grew up Quotes · Page 11

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

— Phil McGraw

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

— Molly Ivins

I was never tomboyish. I loved Barbies. It's just the way I grew up.

— Poppy Montgomery

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

— Rebecca Hall

I grew up spear-fishing, so I've always had a breath hold.

— Tanc Sade

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

— Tom Verlaine

I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it.

— Italia Ricci

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

— Janice Dickinson

I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at…

— Alicia Keys

I grew up with the thought that I wanted to treat people the way I'd like to be treated, and I think…

— Nolan Ryan

I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not…

— Douglas Booth

I'll say this: Google is the best 9-5 anyone could ever get. Awesome environment, I loved my time there, but I grew…

— Hoodie Allen

I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I’m a nerd…but I grew up with a Nintendo controller…

— Zachary Levi

I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to…

— Brad Pitt

I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never…

— Thomas Kinkade

All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an…

— Margaret Mead

The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I grew up in New Jersey in the '80s. That means one thing: Big hair. ... I had big hair, my boyfriends…

— Jancee Dunn

I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and Prince. My parents' record collection was…

— Jesse McCartney

I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the…

— Anna Quindlen

I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan.…

— Sebastian Arcelus

It's nice that I've grown up with the same friends since I was 12, I have a very close knit set of…

— Robert Pattinson

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard…

— Harry Reid

I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it. Studied it in college, got my degree in…

— Italia Ricci

I'm working on a novel about a girl who grows up in the circus and her relationship with her father, who grew…

— Liza Campbell

I actually saw a kid and went home and drew him. I don't even know who he was. I was buying a…

— Mike Judge

The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like…

— Elizabeth Neel

White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half…

— Adrienne Rich

Warsan means "good news" and Shire means "to gather in one place". My parents named me after my father's mother, my grandmother.…

— Warsan Shire

I reached the point in my life now that I understand as human beings we've all done some very horrible things to…

— Killer Mike

I realized that Owen [Suskind] is completely brilliant, because he embraced and memorized all these classic Disney films - these fables that…

— Roger Ross Williams

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

— Caroline Rhea

I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

— Anita Diament

I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.

— Steven Tyler

I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.

— Weili Dai

I grew up knowing [Jack Johnson], surfing with him.

— Donavon Frankenreiter

I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.

— Mila Kunis

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

— Maynard James Keenan

Well, you know, we all grew up as 'Star Wars' fans.

— Rian Johnson