Grew up Quotes · Page 18

A lot of us grew up in public. That often means that you have to fail in public too.

— Robert Longo

I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

— Harland Williams

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career.

— Troy Garity

I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

— Salman Rushdie

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

— Daniel Kahneman

I just enjoy playing in wind, grew up in it, and it makes the golf a bit more fun.

— Louis Oosthuizen

I grew up watching Scooby Doo and Thelma was my favourite character.

— MyAnna Buring

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

— Benjamin Percy

Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our…

— Steve Wozniak

My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.

— Gabe Polsky

I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process.

— Colin Hanks

I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players…

— Boots Riley

I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part…

— Susan Stroman

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't…

— John Irving

I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else…

— Michael Sheen

If you grew up in a dysfunctional family, then there is really no hope for you to have a good relationship. That…

— Gary Chapman

I was raised with a ton of brothers and sisters where, obviously, the music running in and out of the house was…

— Janet Jackson

I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used…

— Rick Danko

We instinctively fear snakes, but we appear not to be afraid of fast cars, which are a real danger now. This suggests…

— Steven Pinker

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning,…

— Ray Bradbury

I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly…

— Mac Barnett

I love dressing up. I'm from a huge African family and grew up in a really colorful place. The way I dress…

— Shingai Shoniwa

Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson... all those guys. So it…

— Austin Mahone

I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules…

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

There is the global teenager hypothesis, that what happened in the '60s in America was that there was, the baby boom cohort…

— Howard Rheingold

In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought…

— Amitabh Bachchan

I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps…

— Abraham Lincoln

I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables…

— Patricia J. Williams

The fact that you see salarymen reading manga and pornography on the trains and being unafraid, unashamed or anything, is something you…

— Hideaki Anno

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some…

— Anne Lamott

I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as…

— Michael Gungor

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.

— Steve Kazee

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

— Katee Sackhoff

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

— Bill Goldberg

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

— Garrett Hedlund

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

— Beatrix Potter

The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.

— Cathy Moriarty

I grew up loving Ridley Scott and Tony Scott and Michael Bay and Adrian Lyne.

— Dan Trachtenberg

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

— Jane Kaczmarek