Grew up Quotes · Page 21

I grew up playing soccer and always loved playing it.

— Wes Welker

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

— Billy Corgan

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

— Elizabeth Moon

I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.

— Olesya Rulin

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

— Ben Harper

Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.

— Frank Bidart

I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.

— Rachel Stevens

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life…

— Drake Bell

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

— Carl Sagan

My father was very funny, so I grew up with humor in the house. And I was always really attracted to comedies…

— Susan Stroman

Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of…

— Boz Scaggs

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

— Laura Linney

When I was a little kid I wanted to be Face. I thought, cos I had blond hair and he did too,…

— Noel Fielding

I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.

— Josh Turner

“I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." ... "You grew up, Alex.”

— Jennifer Egan

Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For once, I couldn’t take advice from anyone around me…

— Cecelia Ahern

I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes…

— George Clooney

I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in…

— George Andrew Olah

I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but…

— Paul Lansky

I grew up when comics were only sold in food markets and news stands, so the direct market is vital to me.…

— Anonymous

I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What…

— Reggie Watts

Philosophy does provide me a structure and a way of thinking. Religion - like the religion I grew up with, Mormonism -…

— Brian Evenson

I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then…

— Dan Chaon

Socially, hip-hop has done more for racial camaraderie in this country than any one thing. 'Cause guys like me, my kids -…

— Michael Rapaport

When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up,…

— Chris Evert

Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space -…

— John Updike

I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in…

— Pico Iyer

I was the kid in the class who was looking for the angles to question things or make wise-ass remarks, not knowing…

— Jello Biafra

I grew up in a theater family. My father was a regional theater classical repertory producer. He created Shakespeare festivals. He produced…

— John Lithgow

You get to a certain moment where you realize all those humans who landed on the moon did so in between Chris…

— Jonathan Nolan

After my father had seen me in five or six things, he said, Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent…

— Dermot Mulroney

I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.

— Cheech Marin

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

My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.

— Stephanie Zimbalist

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

— Rian Johnson