Grew up Quotes · Page 15

Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry.

— Alden Ehrenreich

I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan.

— Kyle Chandler

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

— Billy Corgan

I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.

— Zak Orth

I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

— Bela Karolyi

I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state

— Drew Brees

I grew up poor, but I didn't have poor dreams

— Magic Johnson

I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.

— Kirsty Gallacher

I grew up in the Philippines, and I don’t think there is a problem with the typhoon. It’s normal for us.

— Manny Pacquiao

I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you…

— Amy Ray

I grew up hardcore. I learned to be more responsible - and fiscally responsible - you know, I just wanna be a…

— Lee Daniels

I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell's version of "A Case of You." My mom was a huge Joni Mitchell fan.

— Cheyenne Jackson

Javy [Baez] grew up in Puerto Rico, played a lot of baseball as a youth, played a lot of winter ball. He's…

— Joe Maddon

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom.…

— Thomas Peterffy

I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.

— Wally Lamb

I grew up in a rough environment. You want to be strong and have your presence felt out there. That attitude reflects…

— Mekhi Phifer

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of…

— Connie Britton

I grew up as a kid being able to attend concerts, go to art museums. Santa Barbara was a rich cultural community,…

— Floyd Norman

Actors are not a great breed of people, I don't think. I count myself as something of an exception. I grew up…

— Amy Irving

'Star Trek' was a big thing for me. I kind of grew up with that. And 'Twilight Zone' is one of my…

— Mark Pellegrino

I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what…

— Oscar Hijuelos

I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get…

— Chris Parnell

I grew up the biggest fan of the Cure. Knew every lyric, had every album, B-side, single, poster, everything. Then cut to…

— Mark Hoppus

Capricorn was one of the homes of the Southern rock movement with the Allman Brothers and Charlie Daniels and the Marshall Tucker…

— Jason Aldean

Pretty That's what I am, I guess. I mean, people have been telling me that's what I am since I was two.…

— Ellen Hopkins

I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness…

— Cheryl Strayed

Oddly enough, I've always - I've never actually seen "The Alamo" itself, actually. So I don't really have the association of "Green…

— Quentin Tarantino

I grew up going around with family, camping and living in a very beautiful mountain valley, knowing the names of the mountains…

— Diana L. Eck

We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think…

— Richard Rohr

As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the…

— Jonathan Lethem

In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where…

— Jimmy Carter

Where I grew up in Pakistan, it's really the luck of the draw. My mother got married when she was 17. She…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

— Kim Basinger

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.

— Clarence Thomas

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

— Harvey Weinstein

I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

— Aaron Tveit

I grew up doing some landscaping and painting houses and that kind of thing.

— Miles Teller

I grew up Irish Catholic with a bunch of kids at Catholic school.

— Brigid Brannagh

I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.

— Allyson Felix

Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.

— Denis Leary