Grew up Quotes · Page 20

I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.

— Anonymous

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

— Miles Teller

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest

— James Levine

My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.

— George Thorogood

I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.

— Alexis Stewart

Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.

— Amelie Mauresmo

I grew up in environment that had more women in science.

— Fabiola Gianotti

Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between.

— Seamus Heaney

I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up…

— Brian Tee

I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.

— Lee Pace

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

— Lorraine Toussaint

My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our…

— Laura Allen

As much as I loved [Al] Pacino and [Robert] De Niro and wanted to be a dramatic actor, I also grew up…

— Eric McCormack

Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.

— Noah Baumbach

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

— Albert Camus

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.

— Philip Larkin

I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when…

— Jennifer Egan

As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the…

— Mike Mills

I feel somewhat privileged because I often feel very sorry for kids. I often feel very sorry for 20-year-olds and teens who…

— Justin Broadrick

I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west…

— Charles Frazier

As a Latin man, obviously immigration has been a part of my culture for decades. [I] grew up understanding what you go…

— Wilmer Valderrama

Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup…

— Amy Alcott

Hoodwink is a product of his environment. He grew up in Belfast, he was part of the UDA and he fought for…

— Andy Serkis

I grew up in Harlem. My grandmother was one of the best cooks around, but the first thing she did on Sunday…

— Richard Carmona

We grew up creating this whole world view for ourselves because it's not there in the culture. What am I? And I…

— Kate Bornstein

Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted…

— Pat Buchanan

I grew up in that minority. I grew up in the South, in Roswell, Georgia, and it was heavily white, Baptist, conservative.…

— David Cross

I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere…

— Wole Soyinka

My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I…

— Jason Silva

My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew…

— William Kentridge

My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant…

— Pete Seeger

We all grew up in that era. I'm a little younger than these guys [Will Forte and John Solomon], but I would…

— Will Forte

Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

— Bill Cosby

That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

— Tanya Tucker

I grew up Greenville. And I moved to Raleigh some years later.

— Petey Pablo

I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.

— Melissa Auf der Maur

I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an 'older' young man.

— Kobe Bryant

As the children get older and know what they want ... We all grew up at one point.

— Fetty Wap

Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.

— Tony Greig

We grew up poor, very poor, but I am very proud of where I come from.

— Pedro Martinez