Grew up Quotes · Page 19

My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

— Kieran Hebden

You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.

— Mike McGavick

I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor.

— L. Todd Rose

I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

— Edie Falco

I grew up in the country surrounded by music.

— Martina McBride

I didnt know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.

— Pat Nixon

I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up.

— Rick Baker

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

— Thom Yorke

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard…

— Tom Ford

Like many young women, I grew up believing that (1) physical ability wasn't very important, and (2) I didn't have any.

— Janice Kaplan

I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid…

— Garrison Keillor

I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular…

— Lisa Kleypas

When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained…

— Mireille Guiliano

I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.

— Michael K. Williams

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

— Jessica Lynch

Well, I was born in Louisiana, but I grew up in South Carolina, which both are definitely very different than LA, but…

— Ashley Scott

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation…

— Maya Angelou

I’m a nudist by trade and hobby. I grew up in LA and I’ve been fortunate enough to be doing this for…

— Martin Starr

In a funny way I think social media is making people less rather more experimental. People are too worried about looking good…

— Patrick Grant

I grew up in a steel town of Western Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh, and when I announced for president, I announced from…

— Rick Santorum

My father had a lot to do with me thinking about acting, though he never saw me act. He passed away probably…

— Mahershala Ali

It's good to be back in New York. I have lived here ten years. I'm originally from Indiana. I know what most…

— Jim Gaffigan

I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the…

— Dennis Quaid

I grew up looking at the Sunset Strip, literally. The things that I remember are the Rainbow Room, the Roxy, the Bizarries,…

— Adam Shankman

I was always around people who were in the business from the time I was an absolute baby. I grew up in…

— Fred Melamed

What sets science and the law apart from religion is that nothing is expected to be taken on faith. We're encouraged to…

— Gary Taubes

All I know about 1970s New York City is that it's where I grew up, and you always have an umbilical connection…

— Luc Sante

When I was a little bitty kid, my aunt showed me how to play a little boogie. It took me years. I…

— Dr. John

Remember that day you said you loved me? Remember that? See, you could do that because you're basically a sane person, who…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Essentially, my kids grew up with the emphasis on the environment because I became a political activist in about 1969 and it…

— Robert Redford

I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist]…

— Eddie Vedder

Basketball has always been a sport I loved and grew up playing. For me, it was one of those things that... I…

— Dellin Betances

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

— Lysette Anthony

I'm an animal thug, I grew up eatin' animal cookies

— Akinyele

A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.

— Patterson Hood

I'm not from a generation of kids that grew up on a Mac.

— Paula Scher

I'm a Jewish kid who grew up loving hip hop in NY.

— Hoodie Allen

I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.

— Nicollette Sheridan

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

— Laura Z. Hobson

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

— Frank Langella